Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Focused on the life of the band and their collaborators over the 3 vital years in which they developed critically acclaimed albums, 'Humanz' and 'The Now Now', and undertook their most ambitious world tour to date.
A serviceable music documentary that offers genuine behind-the-scenes access to Damon Albarn and the Gorillaz universe across a creatively fertile period. The cinematography captures the live spectacle and studio intimacy reasonably well, and the subject matter — a deliberately fictional band with a unique conceptual identity — lends inherent novelty to the doc's framing. However, the narrative structure is fairly conventional for a concert/behind-the-scenes film, and without traditional acting to evaluate, that category reflects the naturalistic but unremarkable on-screen presence of the subjects. The ending doesn't offer a particularly satisfying arc or revelation, wrapping up without strong emotional payoff.