Read Variety's Positive Review Of NOTORIOUS - Plus, Photos From the Premiere!

Variety's review of NOTORIOUS posted on January 11th. Read the article in its entirety at Variety.com.

"'Notorious' is a rock-solid biopic with a foolproof rise-and-fall storyline and a warmly nuanced performance by Jamal Woolard as iconic rapper Christopher Wallace..."

"The pic has a propulsive narrative drive. Although the beat-heavy Fox Searchlight release will command a rap-centric fan base, it should also hip-hop its way across demographic lines."

"The supporting cast is solid overall -- notably Naturi Naughton and Antonique Smith as Lil' Kim and Faith Evans, respectively, the principal women in Smalls' life. Mackie comes close to stealing every scene he's in, his Shakur emitting a natural incandescence that contrasts with Biggie's stolid darkness."

"The question of who was behind the murders is left largely to speculation, and the lack of danger in all this seems oddly antithetical to the image Biggie and Tupac left behind. But as Tillman wants to show, that image was largely just marketing -- a mask for the human story he has effectively unearthed from its tabloid interment."

"Production values are tops..."

And don't miss our new flipbook of photos from the New York City premiere last week - see below!

Top photo: Producer Mark Pitts, Antonique Smith, Angela Bassett, Volletta Wallace (Biggie Smalls' mother and one of the producers of NOTORIOUS) and producer Wayne Barrowat the NOTORIOUS premiere in New York City January 7th

Bottom photo: New York City's Roseland Ballroom where the NOTORIOUS premiere's after-party took place on January 7th