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David Bowie: The Last Five Years
2017 90m G
Documentary
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Music
7.5
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A documentary about David Bowie's final two albums "The Next Day" (2013) and "Blackstar" (2016) and Broadway musical "Lazarus".
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Directed By
Francis Whately
Written By
Francis Whately
Studio
BBC Film
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Cast of David Bowie: The Last Five Years
David Bowie
Self (archive footage)
Michael C. Hall
Self
Toni Basil
Self
Tony Visconti
Self
Gail Ann Dorsey
Self
Donny McCaslin
Self
Geoff MacGormack
Self
Maria Schneider
Self
David Bowie: The Last Five Years Reviews
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
The Last Five Years will be a must for even casual Bowie fans, who are most likely still reeling from their idol's absence. It captures the ever-changing artist in his most surprising incarnation yet: a mortal man.
RogerEbert.com
Scout Tafoya
Despite testimony from many of his closest friends and collaborators, The Last Five Years doesn't so much draw a picture of David Bowie as trace his outline.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A good one for either the Bowie die-hard or casual fan.
Consequence
Blake Goble
It transforms and sturdies itself into a nice bit of remembrance for one last outburst of creativity in the life of a great artist.
Pitchfork
Judy Berman
Bowie's untimely death was a tragedy, but at the very least, it finally got us really discussing his body of work. The Last Five Years continues that necessary conversation.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
The Last Five Years visits all of it, and while the subject is only present in the later years through some random audio, archival footage and the recordings themselves, the sense of celebration is uplifting.
Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Dalton
With a tone more celebratory than elegiac, this is a worthy screen memorial that should interest serious Bowiephiles and casual fans alike.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
"The Last Five Years" filters the twilight of Bowie's career through the prism of an era when he reigned as pop royalty, and what you perceive now, far more than the fashion-forward evolutions, is the dazzling continuity beneath them.
Lagniappe (Mobile, AL)
Asia Frey
This lightweight documentary fails to engage meaningfully with such rich material, remaining instead a merely adequate overview of a singularly fascinating period in the life of this artist.
Decider
Benjamin H. Smith
By the end you come away thinking that despite his much ballyhooed different personas, Bowie was in fact one of music's most transparent personalities, the different masks being just different facets of who he really was.
Arts Fuse
Peg Aloi
For those who are fascinated by the enigmas posed by these videos' unusual imagery (such as the face bandages with small buttons for eyes, a haunting visual from "Lazarus"), this documentary will not disappoint.
Hammer to Nail
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
If you like David Bowie, you will like David Bowie: The Last Five Years.
The Ringer
Rob Harvilla
Even if Last Five Years builds a conventional framework for a notoriously unconventional person, that dissonance is its own sort of tribute, and offers another lesson: He did all this stuff because he's the only person alive who could've thought of it.
rogercatlin.com
Roger Catlin
It's a thoughtful look back at a formidable artist.
TV Worth Watching
David Bianculli
... for Bowie fans, undoubtedly it will be worth the wait.
Vague Visages
Peter Bell
Bowie was indeed a source of radiant energy and enlightenment. He evoked a sort of youthful high, instilling fans with the belief they could break out of their mundane lives and become better versions of themselves.
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