Music Reviews and Features | Little White Lies

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Review

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years

by Ed Gibbs

The Fab Four’s mete­oric rise from local grafters to glob­al game-chang­ers is reliv­ed in Ron Howard’s emo­tive doc.

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Black and white image of a rock singer performing on stage, with hand raised in a rock and roll gesture.
Review

Gary Numan: Android in La La Land

by Josh Slater-Williams

The elec­tro pop pio­neer opens up his home and his stu­dio in this inti­mate if uneven doc­u­men­tary profile.

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Review

David Brent: Life on the Road

by Adam Woodward

Ricky Ger­vais revives his most famous – and cringe­wor­thy – com­ic cre­ation in this lam­en­ta­ble spin-off.

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Two punk-style individuals, a man and a woman, standing in front of a graffiti-covered wall with the words "Sex Pistols" displayed prominently.
Review

Sid and Nancy

by David Jenkins

A 30th anniver­sary re-release for Alex Cox’s trag­ic tale of punk roy­al­ty lost to the needle.

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Man in suit playing a trumpet in a room with brick walls and artwork on the walls.
Review

Born to Be Blue

by Trevor Johnston

This care­ful­ly con­sid­ered music biopic of nar­co­tised jazzman Chet Bak­er real­ly gets its man.

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Review

Sing Street

by David Jenkins

Once direc­tor John Car­ney serves up a sug­ary crowd-pleas­er that’s too soft-cen­tred for its own good.

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2
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Review

Miles Ahead

by Trevor Johnston

Don Cheadle’s pas­sion­ate trib­ute to the late jazz icon fails to hit all the right beats.

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Review

Rock the Kasbah

by David Jenkins

This turgid Afghan-based com­e­dy will leave you won­dered if Bill Mur­ray will ever star in a good movie again.

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Review

Tokyo Tribe

by Mark Asch

A kalei­do­scop­ic and inten­tion­al­ly lurid gang­ster rap bat­tle movie from Japan­ese provo­ca­teur Sion Sono.

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Review

Pitch Perfect 2

by Cormac O'Brien

The fur­ther acapel­la antics from the Bar­den Bel­las in this Eliz­a­beth Banks-direct­ed com­e­dy sequel.

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