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4.5/5
David Bowie: The Final Act (2025) Peter Watts Having seen the competition, director John Stiasny can avoid the most documented, mythologised parts of Bowie’s career – namely Ziggy and Berlin –to create an essay on mortality and creativity as much as a biography.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Stephen Troussé It’s astonishing, bravura cinema and you’re seduced just like one of Marty’s marks falling for his indomitable confidence.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Pink Floyd at Pompeii (1972) John Robinson Maben’s direction – now rendered in the gleaming definition of this new release – is all about grandeur. The Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii footage has some sweet things in it...but the main character and scale of the concert sequences is monumental.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Blue Moon (2025) Stephen Troussé For all Hawke’s storied history with Richard Linklater, this might be their finest collaboration yet. A profound, bittersweet rhapsody to the power of words and music.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Train Dreams (2025) Stephen Troussé here are wonderful performances throughout...But the real star may be Adolpho Veloso's cinematography, crafting luminous sparks of memory floating in darkness like glowing embers from a campfire.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Stephen Troussé It settles much too comfortably into the photogenic shortcuts of artistic biography, where every childhood trauma is tied up in the bow of song. ...But there are moments of wonder.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
One Battle After Another (2025) Stephen Troussé It is sensational, dangerous and hysterical – the work of a director in his prime, rising to the challenge of his times.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
S/He Is Still Her/E: The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary (2024) Stephen Troussé There are other more detailed investigations of the “magic approach to sound” of COUM and Throbbing Gristle (notably the 2020 BBC oral history Other, Like Me), but as a portrait of a unique, unrepeatable individual this is hard to beat.
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
One to One: John & Yoko (2024) Stephen Troussé ...[Kevin] Macdonald brings 1971 to vivid, lurid life.
Posted May 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Neil Young: Coastal (2025) Michael Bonner While tour bus natter ranges from the roadside burial of a dead mouse to Howard Hughes’ aviation experiments... Young’s thoughts repeatedly return to the music he is playing on this tour.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025) Peter Watts Each band member seems to be given equal time to tell their story, bringing a welcome balance to the narrative. It’s the same balance that Page says he wanted to bring to the music, with every element of the quartet as important as another.
Posted Feb 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
A Complete Unknown (2024) Stephen Troussé There is lightning in many of the performances, but as a film, A Complete Unknown never quite goes fully electric.
Posted Dec 18, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Lush: A Far from Home Movie (2024) Stephen Troussé As well as serving as a beautiful testament to [Chris Acland's] life, the film feels like a very timely eulogy for a lost world of rock ‘n’ roll that feels more distant than ever.
Posted Oct 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (2023) Damien Love The Stones always overshadowed her life. But it’s in keeping with Pallenberg’s contradictions that this film, which sets her apart and shines a light on the woman like never before, is one of the great Stones documentaries.
Posted Jun 06, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Back to Black (2024) Stephen Troussé If it isn't quite the Hallmark version, Back To Black plays very safe with some very dark materials. But it may be impossible to make an entirely dull film about Amy Winehouse.
Posted May 21, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Eno (2024) John Robinson Eno’s music is an infinitely lovely and thoughtful expanse, and so clearly is this film -- but its real strength may be presenting its subject simply talking.
Posted Apr 26, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Simple Minds: Everything is Possible (2023) Peter Watts Kerr and Burchill, still great pals, return to Glasgow throughout the film, emphasising the importance of the city on their development, particularly how it gave focus to their own monumental ambition.
Posted Jan 31, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill (2022) Jason Anderson Directors Andy Brown and Brian Lindstrom... create something that attains the same grace and beauty heard in Sill’s music.
Posted Oct 26, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Stephen Troussé There is so much to relish about this rich, absorbing, horrifying yet humane movie. At the age of 80, Martin Scorsese is at the top of his game.
Posted Oct 19, 2023  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Rye Lane (2023) Stephen Troussé The fizzing, funny, irresistible spree of Rye Lane is cause for hats in the air.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Broker (2022) Stephen Troussé On the face of it, Broker could be one more piece of ghastly news reportage. Instead this might well be the most charming, heartwarming and humane film you see this year, another small marvel from Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Posted Mar 08, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Nostalgia (2022) Stephen Troussé Though the film settles into familiar gangland tropes, it’s wonderfully alive with the sound and sensations of the modern city -- you can almost smell the traffic fumes, ripe garbage, incense and surf.
Posted Feb 24, 2023  Edit critic review
Neil Young: Harvest Time (2022) Damien Love Steering clear of voiceover narration, the film is an immersive, fly-on-the wall experience -- particularly in the barn session sequences.
Posted Dec 02, 2022  Edit critic review
The Good Boss (2021) Jonathan Romney Bardem is one of the few actors who could really carry off this role: Blanco needs to be at once loathsome, reassuring, cosy and yet plausibly seductive -- and the Spanish star fleshes him out with brio and a nicely deceptive middle-age joviality.
Posted Aug 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Elvis (2022) Jonathan Romney Elvis is hyperbolic, one-dimensional and ludicrous – but as high-excess cinematic myth-making, it’s a blast.
Posted Jul 07, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Where Are You, Jay Bennett? (2021) Rob Hughes Ultimately, as one former bandmate maintains, he just wanted to be understood. This doc goes some way to realising that ambition.
Posted May 27, 2022  Edit critic review
Moonage Daydream (2022) Damon Wise This may not be the in-depth movie bio you think David Bowie deserves, but it is a film he would have loved: playful, intelligent and admirably wary of covering familiar ground.
Posted May 26, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
This Much I Know To Be True (2022) Alastair McKay Cave puts his more traditional songs aside to respond to Ellis’ wild energy.
Posted May 19, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road (2021) Stephen Troussé [A] modest, elliptical, ultimately desperately moving new documentary.
Posted Mar 18, 2022  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Licorice Pizza (2021) Jonathan Romney It’s a joy, and the sort of film that like a great LP -- it’s named after a Californian record store -- you’ll want to play over and over.
Posted Mar 18, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Titane (2021) Jonathan Romney You can't stop watching, though - but be warned, one moment of impromptu facial surgery is cinema's most wince-inducing moment of nasal brutality since Polanski's Chinatown.
Posted Jan 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time (2020) Stephen M. Deusner She emerges with all of her contradictions intact: confident in herself as an artist, relatably conflicted as a human being.
Posted Dec 30, 2021  Edit critic review
Dune (2021) Jonathan Romney Nowhere near as enjoyable as Villeneuve's inspired Blade Runner 2049, Dune is an achievement for sure, but watching it is rather like having huge marble monoliths dropped on you for two and a half hours.
Posted Nov 19, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Last Night in Soho (2021) Jonathan Romney It's a bit too ghoul-heavy in its final stretch, but overall, this is an exhilarating, inventive blast of the past.
Posted Nov 19, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
Respect (2021) Jonathan Romney [Jennifer Hudson is] a winning presence, the expertise and exuberance with which she recreates the great songs at least distinguishing Respect as a superior jukebox tribute.
Posted Oct 01, 2021  Edit critic review
Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025) Jonathan Romney A rich vein of anecdotes is found in Page and Jones's busy history as session players, with Jones particularly emerging as an affable raconteur with a juicy portfolio of anecdotes.
Posted Oct 01, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement (2019) Jim Wirth The wealth of great video footage in Punk The Capital underlines what made DC hardcore unique.
Posted Aug 13, 2021  Edit critic review
The Velvet Underground (2021) Damon Wise It's an audacious move - but, perhaps unsurprisingly for a filmmaker operating on Haynes' level, it works.
Posted Jul 09, 2021  Edit critic review
The Apple (1998) Uncut Staff Simple, painterly, [and] weirdly engaging.
Posted Mar 30, 2021  Edit critic review
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (2021) Stephen Troussé It's an exemplary production in so many ways.
Posted Mar 19, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Zappa (2020) Rob Mitchum A character study of a singular, irascible obsessive.
Posted Feb 13, 2021  Edit critic review
4.5/5
David Byrne's American Utopia (2020) Stephen Dalton Spike Lee's film of Byrne's sold-out Hudson Theater run is respectfully faithful to the stage performance, with a few deft embellishments.
Posted Jan 14, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan (2020) Jonathan Romney MacGowan fans will relish the sheer exuberance of a film that barrels along with the same hectic passion as a vintage Pogues number.
Posted Dec 11, 2020  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Ronnie's (2020) Richard Williams Thanks to judicious use of historical footage and a sensitive score by Alex Heffes, Murray has made a film worthy of its subject.
Posted Oct 13, 2020  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Southern Journey (Revisited) (2020) Andrew Mueller Southern Journey (Revisited) is very much fit to be bracketed with more thoughtful recent explorations of the heartland.
Posted Sep 17, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Desolation Center (2018) Jim Wirth If Swezey's shows created a blueprint for Burning Man and Coachella to perfect after the Sonic Youth-led grunge assault turned indie losers into commercial contenders, his film celebrates less hard-headed times.
Posted Sep 12, 2020  Edit critic review
Parasite (2019) Damon Wise ...director Bong is also working on other levels, not only making all of its characters relatable - the Parks are really quite sweet people, if a little lacking in self-awareness - but telling his story with a healthy dose of uproarious slapstick.
Posted May 01, 2020  Edit critic review
5/5
The Irishman (2019) Dave Calhoun Surely only a filmmaker with plenty of life behind him - and plenty of such stories - could make a film so entertaining and yet so solemn and sad.
Posted May 01, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Uncut Gems (2019) Damon Wise We are rocketed through Ratner's world - a place of permanently raised voices, propulsive camera work and blaring noise - accompanied by a pulsing score from Daniel Lopatin...
Posted May 01, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Marriage Story (2019) Damon Wise Baumbach's film is sincere, even affectionate, as it follows this disintegrating family unit.
Posted May 01, 2020  Edit critic review
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