Straight Outta Compton, in theaters now, isn't your typical biopic. It tells the story of a rap group, N.W.A — a unique subject for a genre that often focuses on royals and politicians. It ...

The Universal biopic, "Straight Outta Compton," could bring in big box office numbers this weekend on a very modest budget.

“Straight Outta Compton’’ is good summer fun. But like everything in the big-money rap realm, it should be taken with a truckload of salt. De Blasio’s NYC will bum you out ...

Much the way that N.W.A showed that unflinching honesty in music could fuel a new industry, Straight Outta Compton reminded that a good movie is a good movie.

One of the summer’s most entertaining and provocative movies, F. Gary Gray’s “Straight Outta Compton’’ provides timely context to one of the most inflammatory songs of the 20th century ...

By rights, "Straight Outta Compton" should have arrived in theaters more than a decade ago, when the idea for a biopic about the influential late-'80s-early-'90s rap group N.W.A. first surfaced ...

N.W.A.’s seminal album “Straight outta Compton” painted the Los Angeles area city as a hotbed for gang banging and drug dealing. But long after its 1988 debut, its residents have been ...

“Straight Outta Compton,” a drama about the rap group N.W.A., boasts instant audience appeal. Longtime admirers of the Los Angeles ensemble, which helped create West Coast gangsta rap with its ...

“Straight Outta Compton” is the most important film you’ll see this year. It’s a movie about history that depicts the present and quite possibly the future.

For decades, the mid-sized city of Compton struggled with an outsized reputation, seared into American pop culture, as a place synonymous with gangs, drive-by shootings and gangsta rap.