Louisiana A-’Blaze’

Meanwhile, New Orleans’ Times-Picayune film critic David Baron gives the pic three out of a possible four stars, and said that though film maker Shelton took liberties with history, he managed to capture “the essence of the Bayou state’s long legacy of matchlessly flamboyant politics.”

Rick Barton, film critic for the weekly New Orleans Gambit, said he’s willing to overlook the film’s “historical inaccuracies” and that he “wasn’t troubled by the accents” in the movie. Barton thought the performances were “really captivating,” although “I didn’t think the romantic electricity in the film provided the sparks it should have.”