'Taylor Swift makes for a fascinating documentary subject, both generous and withholding, frank and elusive,' writes V.F. critic rilaws. Read his full review:
is a tricky movie. The film, which was one of the opening-night selections at this year’s Sundance Film Festival ahead of its Netflix release on January 31, is an often compelling look at the psychological mechanics governing one—mega-famous singer-songwriter and frequent lightning rod for all kinds of disparate controversy. In trying to explicate the unique surreality of her situation, Swift makes for a fascinating documentary subject, both generous and withholding, frank and elusive.
Swift has probably earned the prerogative to manage her image in this long format. Hers is the heart, mind, and body that has been offered up to the masses for adulation and relentless scrutiny for many years now. Why shouldn’t she then get to assert some further agency and tell her story the way she thinks is most fair? We have given her our attention, and now she is asking us to hear, really hear, what she has to say—and, in the process, maybe learn who she really is.
It was another calculation that the movie should premiere at a major festival a week before its release. There, in the biggest venue in Park City, was a room of supporters and critics—the former giving the latter loud, ardent cues for when to be moved, when to be impressed, when to cheer. I don’t think Swift, in the realest glimpses we get of her in the film, needs that boostering.
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