4.0
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[An] extraordinary documentary, nothing at all like what I was expecting to see. Here is not a sick and drugged man forcing himself through grueling rehearsals, but a spirit embodied by music. Michael Jackson was something else.
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What this strange yet strangely beguiling film does is capture one of pop culture's great entertainers in the feverish grips of pure creativity.
Differing greatly from the rough, casual mood of many behind-the-scenes pop docs, this one is instead of a piece with Jackson's body of work: dazzling and strange, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.
There's an incredible amount to enjoy here, and the star's fans will be in rapture.
This Is It offers a raw and endearing sketch of a genius at work.
If This Is It doesn't miraculously restore the middle-aged Jackson to his past glory, it at least offers glimpses of his bygone greatness, and poignant suggestions of what might have been.
The on-screen results are weird and watchable, by turns frustrating and entertaining, and predictably a little morbid.
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The King of Pop, human again.
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Dang, no "P.Y.T" or "Dirty Diana."
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