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dave d @RT34924333 01/30/2024 Sinead O'Connor was ahead of her time and Americans never understood her so it should be no surprise the Prince Estate didn't allow the film to use her titular song. There is so much more to the singer than this, but this film focuses on the early part of her career. This isn't a wide-ranging documentary. I wasn't a huge fan, but you'll have to be to like this. It is well made but there are no talking heads, just voices which is a touch distracting. Beautiful defiant eyes and an amazing voice. Non-conformists aren't the enemy, often they are the solution. Amazing America didn't appreciate debate or freedom of expression or speech. Shocking. Final Score: 7/10 See more JV H @JenVH 08/07/2023 Nothing Compares is a beautifully edited, written and directed film. It has many insights and inspires understanding. I wish Sinead was still with us See more fergus o @RT30249059 07/29/2023 Showing a true artist; expressing herself through music. Ignoring public opinion, not opting for a shallow existence, not caring what the fickle media wrote about her.. the documentary shows her ahead of her time, a lasting eternal force of nature - a moving depiction of raw beautiful talent. See more Christopher S @Lagonda 02/18/2023 Excellent portrait of a woman so ahead of her time. See more Scott N @RT62559353 10/05/2022 Pretty amazing the sacrifice Sinead took for speaking her truth and fighting for causes that society wasnt ready to see in the 90s. What an inspring trailblazer! See more Kevin L @Lakeman 10/03/2022 I found this a largely fascinating and very honest overview of Sinéad O'Connor's life from her heinously abusive childhood through the release of her first three albums and the media storms she had to weather due to the brilliance of much of her music and the success they brought her, along with all the hell she caught for having the crazy thought that she could express herself as a free human being. The film was edited very well with some well thought out choices on who to use from interviews conducted about her. Her longtime best friend, John Reynolds, and Chuck D. in particular stood out for me. I do wish a bit had been said about a couple of the later albums, but a doc about her recordings in general would be more fitting for that. Well done by director Kathryn Ferguson and her crew, certainly editor Mick Mahorn, and the producers. It's just too bad the Prince estate prevented them from using "Nothing Compares To You" in the film. He certainly made far more money from her version that any he himself did or that one by The Family. But it was clever, and more fine editing, how they used the actual footage from making the video with another recording that fit. The last section that refers to the legacy O'Connor is very much a part of was a nice way to wrap up a film about such a polarizing artist who wasn't really 'seen' by her critics, esp. the extreme wingnuts (or meatheads like Pesci, or limp pop stars like Collins) It shows her as an outspoken voice for greater freedoms in Ireland (and elsewhere), for women in particular, and greater awareness of child abuse and speaking out about it, and other sociopolitical issues. It was a very apt choice to finish with her singing live, and esp. "Thank You For Hearing Me", which is really all she wanted to begin with. 4 stars See more Read all reviews

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