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Chris Willman

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The Disciple (2026) EDIT “It’s fair to say there won’t be a juicier story revolving around record collecting in our lifetimes. The “Shaolin” saga makes for an amusing yarn, well told, in “The Disciple.”” – Variety Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape from Now (2025) EDIT “It can be a tough watch, seeing someone who has been such an avatar of maniacal fun confessing that his pain is so chronic, he has moments of wanting it all to just end.” – Variety Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe (2024) 83% EDIT “His flock will get a pleasant buzz even if they don’t see it in a cinema that serves red wine … though they should still look for one, for best effect.” – Variety Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery (2025) 100% EDIT “Whether you were around at the time or are learning about it afresh, like Rodrigo, you may spend the entirety of the doc wishing we could get ourselves back to the garden.” – Variety Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Man on the Run (2025) EDIT ““Man on the Run” is a heck of a lot of fun to watch.” – Variety Sep 4, 2025 Full Review HIGHWAY 99: A Double Album (2025) EDIT “At the end of his life, he was still learning to take a lot of pride in who he was. Hawke, for his part, can take some in finally giving a hero such a heartfelt, trenchant and long-overdue screen immortalization.” – Variety Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Pumpkinhead (1988) 51% EDIT “The extensive writing credits for the horror film Pumpkinhead read like a confusing textbook case of Hollywood ampersands and arbitrated punctuation...” – Los Angeles Times Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Diane Warren: Relentless (2024) 86% EDIT ““Diane Warren: Relentless” comes through in presenting its subject as a complicated, vulnerable, cocky and almost counterintuitively charming figure you just want to hang around with a lot more. ” – Variety Jan 15, 2025 Full Review This Is a Film About the Black Keys (2024) EDIT “An engaging music documentary that trains a spotlight on some lesser-known, historical tensions between the two as well as what binds them.” – Variety Mar 13, 2024 Full Review Teen Witch (1989) 43% EDIT “Zelda also has the movie's worst line: "The real magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen!" Guess the makers of Teen Witch just didn't believe in themselves enough.” – Los Angeles Times Feb 16, 2024 Full Review Immediate Family (2022) 100% EDIT ““Immediate Family” keeps hustling along like a soft-rock freight train, relying not just on the then-and-now chemistry between the four core players but also on our eagerness to jump with them to the next celebrity-session story.” – Variety Dec 20, 2023 Full Review TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023) 98% EDIT “Apart from maybe those digital title superimpositions, you’d be hard-pressed to point to any wrong moves Wrench makes in transferring the show from stage to screen.” – Variety Oct 13, 2023 Full Review They Shot the Piano Player (2023) 79% EDIT “Jazz and animation make for strong bedfellows in “They Shot the Piano Player,” a film from Spanish directors Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal that represents an intriguing hybrid in all sorts of ways.” – Variety Sep 13, 2023 Full Review American Symphony (2023) 94% EDIT “[A] warm and lovely film...” – Variety Sep 1, 2023 Full Review Peter Case: A Million Miles Away (2022) 100% EDIT “Even with some bridges fully or half-torched behind its subject, “A Million Miles Away” is a highly flattering portrait of the artist as a young man who really just kind of wanted to sound old before his time.” – Variety May 30, 2023 Full Review A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys (2023) EDIT “No wrong harmonies are struck, literally or figurative, in a two-hour show that starts out feeling a little bit by-the-numbers but eventually lands on a series of knockout covers fit for a Wilson.” – Variety Apr 10, 2023 Full Review Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed (2023) EDIT “Whatever else you might say of Isbell, or Shires, in the best or worst of times, proceeding with closed eyes doesn’t feel like a problem.” – Variety Apr 9, 2023 Full Review Kiss the Future (2023) 100% EDIT “While an interesting ’90s history lesson, Nenad Cicin-Sain's film could have benefited from portraying Sarejevo's resident artists at the close as extensively as it does at the beginning.” – Variety Feb 23, 2023 Full Review Joan Baez I Am a Noise (2023) 94% EDIT “Directors Miri Navasky, Karen O’Connor and Maeve O’Boyle finally do an impressive and affecting job of hitting all those marks, in a film whose chief sin may just be that it doesn’t run about a half-hour longer. ” – Variety Feb 21, 2023 Full Review Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All (2023) 93% EDIT “Bombach’s movie finds its real flavor in exploring the differences in the duo’s two very distinct personalities, which up till now might have seemed like a fuzzy, singular unit by all but the most hardcore fans.” – Variety Jan 20, 2023 Full Review Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me (2022) 97% EDIT “Gomez comes off as a deeply serious, intentionally minded person — the kind pop music could use a lot more of — but one with enough of a sparing sense of dark humor to hear sirens in the distance and joke, “There’s my ride.”” – Variety Nov 3, 2022 Full Review Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (2022) 92% EDIT ““Squaring the Circle” is kind of most fun when it gets into the album jackets you may recognize but never spent more than three seconds thinking about before.” – Variety Sep 9, 2022 Full Review If These Walls Could Sing (2022) 95% EDIT “For the most part, the movie leans toward being a collection of mini-essays about individual recording experiences, which is as it should be, probably.” – Variety Sep 4, 2022 Full Review Vinyl Nation (2020) 100% EDIT “The clichéd word that’s most bandied about by vinyl enthusiasts really does apply to the movie that’s been made about it: “warmth.”” – Variety Apr 28, 2022 Full Review Take Me to the River: New Orleans (2022) 90% EDIT “Eventually the film finds its own rhythm. A movie that includes this disproportionate an amount of the world’s leading experts in syncopation would be hard-pressed not to.” – Variety Apr 28, 2022 Full Review
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