Dakota Johnson plays a personal assistant and Tracee Ellis Ross is the pop diva she works for in a movie that can't decide if it's a behind-the-music-industry drama or a go-for-your-dream fairy tale.
By Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Dakota Johnson, with her sun-dazed smile and wary doe-eyed glow (the look of an innocent who knows how to thread her way through a world of predators), can be a winsomely appealing performer, but what is she doing in “The High Note” playing Maggie, the personal assistant to an imperious pop-star diva?
It’s the kind of job that would toughen up anyone who’s had it for a week. But Maggie, after three years of working for Grace Davis, a high-maintenance superstar from the ’90s played by Tracee Ellis Ross,
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