The fact that the film's star, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, delivers a genuinely galvanizing performance as a singer searching for her own voice makes "Beyond the Lights" not just enormous fun to watch but ...

I love Beyond the Lights so much. What do you remember about ... Their image is very carefully controlled at a point when they’re just raw material, and don’t necessarily have the power ...

This is turning into a very good year for Gugu Mbatha-Raw. The intimations of stardom that were evident in “Belle” come into full blossom in “Beyond the Lights.” As a work of art ...

"Beyond the Lights" inadvertently answers that one, too. Or, more to the point, Gugu Mbatha-Raw does. And that answer is: yes. Mbatha-Raw, who was so good in "Belle" as a mixed-race woman who ...

This is turning into a very good year for Gugu Mbatha-Raw. The intimations of stardom that were evident in "Belle" come into full blossom in "Beyond the Lights." As a work of art, the movie is ...

Gugu Mbatha-Raw is on the move ... Gina Prince-Bythewood's impressive contemporary romance “Beyond the Lights.” The film finds Mbatha-Raw portraying Noni, a pop-star on the verge of superstardom.

This gesture can be felt as the animating impulse behind writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “Beyond the Lights ... is the grown-up Noni (Gugu Mbatha-Raw from “Belle”), who is ...

In Beyond the Lights, Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle) plays Noni, a young singer thrust into the music-industry pressure cooker—one that seems to transform female performers into hypersexualized ...

English actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw captures that fraught journey convincingly in buzzed-about film Beyond the Lights (in theaters Nov. 14 through Relativity Media). The 31-year-old portrays Noni ...

The stars turned out for the L.A. premiere of Relativity and BET Studios’ “Beyond the Lights” at ... the air of authenticity around Gugu Mbatha-Raw‘s Noni and make her feel like a musical ...

This is turning into a very good year for Gugu Mbatha-Raw. The intimations of stardom that were evident in "Belle" come into full blossom in "Beyond the Lights." As a work of art, the movie is ...

A savvy stage mom, a disappointed but supportive father and the hip-hop biz bedevil the singer and the cop’s romance in “Beyond the ... Brit actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw portrays Noni, the U.K ...