
Variety
There’s an incredible amount to enjoy here, and the star’s fans will be in rapture.
Full reviewThis concert film offers a behind-the-scenes look at the legend as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place in London’s O2 Arena. Chronicling the months from April through June, 2009, the film is drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing songs for the show. Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at the singer, dancer, filmmaker and architectas he creates and perfects his final show.
There’s an incredible amount to enjoy here, and the star’s fans will be in rapture.
Full reviewThe on-screen results are weird and watchable, by turns frustrating and entertaining, and predictably a little morbid.
Full review[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.
Full reviewBut this isn't a concert film. It's a rehearsal film - and one that will leave Jackson's most zealous fans waiting for goose bumps that never arrive.
Full reviewDiffering 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.
Full reviewWhat this strange yet strangely beguiling film does is capture one of pop culture's great entertainers in the feverish grips of pure creativity.
Full reviewThis Is It delivers neither the full-on Jackson stage experience or a revealing portrait of his complex mindset. Yet it does not dishonour his memory and you can’t deny the power of the music.
Full reviewThis is It will go down as one of the most blatant money-making ventures I have ever seen.
Full reviewThis Is It is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV.
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