Review: ‘High Note` is easy listening for troubled times
(WorldNews Entertainment)

There may have been a point — say, oh, a few months ago? — when we`d have demanded a lot more edge from a movie like “The High Note,” and been less forgiving of its more implausible moments. But hey, times have changed, and the pleasing chemistry of two very likable leads — Tracee Ellis Ross as a pop diva and Dakota Johnson as her harried, ambitious assistant — makes for some easy listening (and watching) in these troubled days. Throw in charismatic supporting turns from Kelvin Harrison Jr. — the talented actor from “Waves,” who gets to sing here — and an amiably wisecracking Ice Cube, and we`ll forgive most foibles. Well, except a pretty ludicrous plot twist towards the end that surely...