Blue Story's reviews
Media reviews
"A sensational debut. A moving, urgent, energetic drama (...)".
Screen Daily
"Thus 'Blue Story' is an intriguing proposition: all that energy and raw talent poured into a highly conventional story (...) there's an appetite for 'Blue Story'".
"An explosive debut (...) The director invigorates the material with an authentic sense of place and a formal conceit that involves Onwubolu, as Rapman, wandering into frame and launching into hefty wedges of exposition rap (...)".
The Guardian
"Onwubolu avoids the usual flash and posturing in favour of a careful, rooted storytelling, finding subtly different perspectives on gang life (...)".
Empire
"The musical interludes in which Rapman narrates significant plot points offer a welcome change of pace, but the subject matter at play here is a little too common to truly stand out from the pack (...)".
Time Out
"What makes ?Blue Story? feel genuinely fresh as an urban drama is Rapman?s own intermittent presence as a kind of one-man rapping Greek chorus (...)".