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Living Life Fearless

Living Life Fearless is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Stephen Silver.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
ONE SHOT with Ed Sheeran (2025) Stephen Silver The songs are good. New York looks great, whether it’s the High Line park or the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. He’s very charming and affable.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Being Eddie (2025) Stephen Silver This is going to appeal to people who are interested in revisiting their favorite Eddie SNL bits, as well as the most notable moments from his acting career. But a deep dive, this is not
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Stephen Silver I laughed a lot, although seeing the film under the best possible circumstances… I still don’t quite see it as the full-on instant comedy classic that other people are seeing.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Downey Wrote That (2025) Stephen Silver A hugely entertaining examination of a man whose name or face you might know, but whose work you’ve undoubtedly laughed at.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape from Now (2025) Stephen Silver Raises a fascinating question: Is continuing to perform as a rock star, despite advanced age, disease, and debilitating pain, something that corresponds to the ideals of metal and rock ’n’ roll, or is it the antithesis of that?
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
In Whose Name? (2025) Stephen Silver It isn’t even that interesting ― in fact, it has just about nothing to say about Ye that we wouldn’t have known already, just from reading the media coverage.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
The Truth About Jussie Smollett? (2025) Stephen Silver That question mark in the title, it turns out, is important, and also sort of nullifies the whole thing.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) Stephen Silver A beautiful, ethereal documentary about the late singer.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Boy George & Culture Club (2025) Stephen Silver Being coy about sexuality, and trolling everyone who asked about it, was a key part of what the band was up to back in the day―and also, that they were having the time of their life with it.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Neil Young: Coastal (2025) Stephen Silver It's way, way more interesting when Young is on stage than when he’s off it.
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (2025) Stephen Silver The film shows the same mastery of archival material that Questlove brought to Summer of Soul, including a great opening that’s already gone viral on social media.
Posted Jan 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Diane Warren: Relentless (2024) Stephen Silver The new documentary tells her entire life story, which is much more intriguing that you may have known
Posted Nov 27, 2024  Edit critic review
Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird (2023) Stephen Silver A lot of music documentaries these days look exactly like every other, but that’s certainly not the case with this one.
Posted Nov 15, 2024  Edit critic review
The Philly Sound... Heard 'Round the World (2023) Stephen Silver Tells the rollicking, decades-spanning story of Sigma Sound Studios, the Philadelphia recording studio that, between 1968 and its closure in 2014, was the birthplace of significant music across numerous genres.
Posted Nov 15, 2024  Edit critic review
Luther: Never Too Much (2024) Stephen Silver A documentary that fairly balances all of that; Vandross was a huge talent, while also underling the tragedy of that life.
Posted Nov 15, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
When Giants Walked Here (2024) Stephen Silver I hope this leads to more local PBS stations looking into their local pro wrestling histories and mining stories from that.
Posted Aug 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision (2024) Stephen Silver Fascinating stuff, although I would probably watch another documentary just about the studio’s history and all the people who cycled there over the years
Posted Aug 16, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
MoviePass, MovieCrash (2024) Stephen Silver Tells a particular story about MoviePass, which has some truth to it, but overall, it probably isn’t quite as clean and neat as the documentary makes it sound.
Posted Jun 07, 2024  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All (2023) Stephen Silver As is the case in most documentaries about famous women from the 1990s, there’s lots of footage of talk show hosts being absolute dicks to them. But yes, you’ll hear a lot of their excellent music.
Posted May 09, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Milli Vanilli (2023) Stephen Silver Benefits from some distance, while also placing it firmly in the documentary genre of 'Gee, we sure freaked out badly about that thing in the ‘90s, didn’t we?'
Posted Nov 03, 2023  Edit critic review
2/5
Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story (2023) Stephen Silver The level of sports movie cliché is almost overwhelming; as is the notion that this movie about a craven marketing exercise is, itself, a craven marketing exercise.
Posted Sep 07, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Let the Canary Sing (2023) Stephen Silver The archival footage is outstanding, and we learn some harrowing stuff about the singer’s upbringing.
Posted Jul 13, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/5
All Up in the Biz (2023) Stephen Silver Fleshes out the rapper’s place in the New York City hip-hop scene, as well as his various brushes with movies and other mainstream pop culture.
Posted Jul 13, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Cypher (2023) Stephen Silver Expertly navigates the line between real and not real, and I’m excited for the arguments that will ensue once people see this.
Posted Jul 13, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Stand (2023) Stephen Silver A worthy tribute to an NBA star, with a wildly compelling life story, who hasn’t quite been given his due by history.
Posted Feb 10, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile (2022) Stephen Silver I am a lifelong non-fan of country music, but I admit that I absolutely loved this film,
Posted Nov 21, 2022  Edit critic review
2/5
The Whale (2022) Stephen Silver Mean-spirited while claiming to be empathetic, it consists almost entirely of people shouting mean things at each other in a way that feels manipulative, and it has almost no handle on most of its characters.
Posted Sep 30, 2022  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Halftime (2022) Stephen Silver While it feels at times like a commercial for Jennifer Lopez herself, the documentary isn't devoid of worthwhile moments.
Posted Jun 21, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story (2022) Stephen Silver Pang has written two memoirs about this period, so the stories aren’t exactly unheard. But the doc presents them in a unique way.
Posted Jun 21, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song (2021) Stephen Silver Sure, there's a bit too much about Cohen that has nothing to do with the song, but overall it's a worthwhile examination of the tune and the many notable people who have sang it.
Posted Jun 21, 2022  Edit critic review
B-
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) Stephen Silver While offering an amusing premise and quite a few laughs, It ultimately didn’t really have anything profound, daring, or new to say about Nicholas Cage
Posted May 08, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Dio: Dreamers Never Die (2022) Stephen Silver A watchable exploration of the prolific frontman's life and career.
Posted Apr 01, 2022  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story (2022) Stephen Silver Like most projects about New Orleans, Jazz Fest made me want to get on a plane and fly to that city as fast as I can.
Posted Apr 01, 2022  Edit critic review
1/5
Me You Madness (2021) Stephen Silver A wildly misconceived vanity project that fails in just about every way possible.
Posted Oct 29, 2021  Edit critic review
5/5
Titane (2021) Stephen Silver One of the most shocking, visually stunning movies made in recent memory. It takes an absolutely humongous swing, and it connects with force.
Posted Oct 29, 2021  Edit critic review
4.5/5
We Are The Thousand (2020) Stephen Silver The original video made a lot of people cry - including Grohl himself, he admits in the documentary - but what hit me was the pure, unadulterated joy.
Posted Mar 24, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
Charli XCX: Alone Together (2021) Stephen Silver I'm still not especially looking forward to the next year of The Cinema of Quarantine, but Alone Together was a better example of that than most.
Posted Mar 24, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free (2021) Stephen Silver The movie features rarely-seen camaraderie among Petty and his bandmates, and some really outstanding music. Most of all, it made me miss Petty a lot.
Posted Mar 24, 2021  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Climb (2019) Stephen Silver An absolute gem of a comedy/drama. It's frequently hilarious, and on a different wavelength than most comedies I've seen
Posted Feb 19, 2021  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Flee (2021) Stephen Silver Seems destined to go down as one of the best documentaries of the year, one of the best animated features, and one of the best foreign-language films.
Posted Feb 12, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
The Sparks Brothers (2021) Stephen Silver The enjoyable film follows the brotherly act through many decades and several different reinventions of their music and features a long list of celebrity talking heads
Posted Feb 12, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021) Stephen Silver Doesn't veer very far from the conventional wisdom about Sesame Street, but the clips are so, so great.
Posted Feb 12, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It (2021) Stephen Silver A fine examination of the career of a Hollywood and Broadway legend, whose career has extended through seven decades, and who will turn 90 later this year.
Posted Feb 12, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Captains of Za'atari (2021) Stephen Silver A beautiful film, shot over the course of six years, about the universality of the "beautiful game."
Posted Feb 12, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Misha and the Wolves (2021) Stephen Silver An absolutely enthralling doc about a woman who wrote a memoir about her experiences in the Holocaust, but turned out to be lying.
Posted Feb 12, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Jumbo (2020) Stephen Silver Certainly the best movie I've ever seen about a woman in love with an amusement park ride.
Posted Jan 22, 2021  Edit critic review
2/5
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) Stephen Silver It's significantly overlong while missing a lot of the things that worked so well about the original.
Posted Dec 31, 2020  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Promising Young Woman (2020) Stephen Silver It's pretty clearly the best film yet to engage with the ideas of the #MeToo movement, although this film is far from a lecture or a political jeremiad
Posted Dec 31, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
Pieces of a Woman (2020) Stephen Silver If you can get through the first half-hour of Pieces of a Woman and stay with the movie long enough to enjoy it, god bless you.
Posted Dec 31, 2020  Edit critic review
2/5
I'm Your Woman (2020) Stephen Silver The execution just isn't there, and I found it kind of boring.
Posted Dec 31, 2020  Edit critic review
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