Category: Music
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Just Be Yourself
On ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ and ‘Let It Be.’
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Wild Ones
On ‘Suzi Q’ and ‘The Go-Go’s.’
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On ‘Miss Americana’
This Taylor Swift documentary summons a surprising amount of sympathy.
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‘The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show’ is Barely Functional
I’m hard on ‘The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show’ because I sense it might have been more.
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On ‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice’
The documentary is a testament to the singer’s greatness — and the extent to which she’s underrated.
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Baubles
On ‘Glitter’ and ‘Xanadu.’
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The Amiable Simplicity of ‘Coffee & Cigarettes’
Jarmusch, despite likely not having exerted too much energy in mapping out the movie, instills in the film a strange unity.
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Vibrations
On ‘Monterey Pop’ and ‘Woodstock.’
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‘Spice World’ is a Lot of Fun
These five had a good time with what they once had. The film allows us to dwell in that pocket of time once more.
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A New Kind of Rock Doc
On ‘Justin Bieber: Never Say Never,’ ‘Katy Perry: Part of Me,’ and ‘One Direction: This is Us.’
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On ‘Amazing Grace’
At the center of this church, Aretha Franklin creates not just a feeling of home and unity but announces herself as the closest thing to a divine being personified in that place and that moment.
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‘Homecoming’ is Overwhelming
‘Homecoming’ is undoubtedly one of the great rock docs, joining the pantheon of genre definitives like ‘Stop Making Sense’ and ‘Sign ‘o’ the Times.’
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