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Pavements, Alex Ross Perry’s documentary about the indie-rock band Pavement , stars Stranger Things’ Joe Keery as the lanky, cryptic front man.
It's an ingeniously snarky deconstruction of rock hagiography, weaving in scenes and on-set footage from the nonexistent Range Life as well as an off- Broadway musical and a pop-up exhibition.
Piece by Piece may feel like other music documentaries, but at least it doesn’t look like them.
Morgan Neville makes consistently clever use of his childlike materials.
The movie adopts a fundamentally PG tone, which jibes with some aspects of Williams ’ life, but also places a limit on how deep the film can dig.
Elton John : Never Too Late is co-directed by his husband David Furnish and drawn with full cooperation from John ’s extensive archives.
The nine-hour film will be available in December on Disney+ .
It's an official version of John 's story, if a substantially darker one.
The film is based on audio interviews conducted by ghostwriter Alexis Petridis .
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