Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
While crafting his Grammy-nominated album "Astroworld," Travis Scott juggles controversy, fatherhood and career highs in this intimate documentary.
A behind-the-scenes music documentary that offers genuine intimacy with Travis Scott during a creatively fertile period, capturing the making of Astroworld alongside personal milestones like fatherhood. The cinematography has energy and style befitting Scott's aesthetic, with concert footage that translates his live spectacle well. However, as a music doc it follows fairly familiar conventions — backstage access, personal struggles, performance highlights — without pushing the form in a particularly novel direction. The 'plot' is loose and episodic rather than dramatically compelling, and the ending doesn't land with special impact. Acting is not a meaningful category here, scored accordingly.