Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.
Todd Haynes brings a genuinely avant-garde formal sensibility to this music documentary, employing split-screen techniques and visual layering that mirror the band's own aesthetic experiments — making the form inseparable from the subject. The archival footage is curated with rare intelligence, and the film's kaleidoscopic structure feels unmistakably authored. Novelty and cinematography are the clear standouts: no other rock documentary quite looks or feels like this. The oral history framework, while rich, is still fundamentally conventional documentary territory, and the ending, while reflective, doesn't fully resolve the band's complex legacy with the same boldness the middle sections achieve.