Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?

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Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?

In Theaters Sep 24

1h 39m

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Biography

Music

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Charting the Sheffield band's extraordinary journey from obscurity to cultural touchstone. Fusing footage from Pulp's biggest ever arena show -- part of the global tour for 'More', the band's first album in 24 years -- with four decades of colorful, never-seen-before archival material.

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Garth Jennings

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Nick Banks

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Jarvis Cocker

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Candida Doyle

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Pulp

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Jarvis Cocker

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Sam Davies

Sight & Sound

2 days ago

Director Garth Jennings’s film splits the difference between a Greatest Hits concert film and a Story Of documentary, putting the spotlight firmly on Jarvis.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

3 days ago

4/5

...Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?, a scrapbook-meets-concert film, is a keen reminder that the alchemy of a band such as Pulp cannot be replicated.

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Emma Fraser

Little White Lies

5 days ago

4/5

What makes Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? so engaging is the mix of live material and archival footage that explores the drive to keep performing beyond financial benefit.

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Christopher Schobert

The Film Stage

1 day ago

As Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? makes abundantly clear, Cocker’s voice, moves, and lust for performance put Pulp in a class by themselves. This film is quite an encore.

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André Didyme-Dôme

Rolling Stone en Español

2 days ago

The encore isn't about repeating the past. It's about returning to it, turning on the lights, and discovering that there are still thousands of people ready to sing. [Full review in Spanish]

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Christopher Campbell

Nonfics (Substack)

2 days ago

Compared to the 2014 film Pulp: A Film About Life, Death and Supermarkets, this one looks and sounds better but lacks a lot of the character that made the earlier documentary one of our favorites of the year.

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Synopsis

Charting the Sheffield band's extraordinary journey from obscurity to cultural touchstone. Fusing footage from Pulp's biggest ever arena show -- part of the global tour for 'More', the band's first album in 24 years -- with four decades of colorful, never-seen-before archival material.

Director: Garth Jennings
Producer: Octavia Peissel, Danny Gabai, Amy Rattray, Paul Dugdale
Distributor: MUBI
Production Co: MUBI
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 24, 2026, Limited
Runtime: 1h 39m

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