Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn case you hadn’t noticed, we’re in the midst of a renaissance moment in pop-music documentaries.
For a while, it seemed like they’d gone away, sucked up into the whole packaging-of-CDs-with-extras thing. (The films were still being made, only now they were seen largely as promotional tools, folded into the selling of a new album or the reissuing of a classic old album.) But the streaming era, with its endless appetite for product, has been a boon to music docs.
A lot of them, like “ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas” (2019) or “Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams” (2018) or last year’s exceptional “Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind,” fly mostly under the radar but find their fan base.
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