Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
The story of artist Lil Peep from his birth in Long Island and meteoric rise as a genre blending pop star & style icon, to his death due to an accidental opioid overdose in Arizona at just 21 years of age.
Everybody's Everything is a heartfelt and emotionally resonant documentary portrait of Lil Peep, benefiting enormously from candid archival footage and intimate family interviews that give it unusual access and warmth. The ending — framed around his sudden, tragic death at 21 — lands with genuine devastation and gives the film its emotional weight. However, structurally it follows a fairly conventional rise-and-fall biographical documentary arc, and the cinematography, while serviceable and well-assembled, rarely transcends its archival material. The film's novelty is limited by its adherence to the admiring biographical doc formula, though Peep himself as a subject is singular. Overall a moving tribute elevated by its subject and emotional honesty rather than formal innovation.