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Listening to Kenny G
Directed by
Penny Lane
NR
2021
1h 37m
Documentary
,
Music
7.4
100%
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An examination of the most popular instrumentalist of all time, Kenny G, and why he is polarizing to so many.
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Kenny G
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Penny Lane
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Gabriel Sedgwick
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Listening to Kenny G Ratings & Reviews
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
Both a portrait of the best-selling instrumentalist recording artist ever, and a bemused examination of why such a popular guy is also so widely loathed-particularly by jazz "purists" and critics...
Paste Magazine
Sydney Urbanek
Listening to Kenny G gives you all your need-to-knows so that you can take or leave the titular musician as you see fit.
The Curvy Film Critic
Carla Renata
Penny Lane demystifies one of the most divisive jazz artists on the scene pulling back the veil from the artists himself - the one and only Kenny G
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
Jazz critics, music professors, fans, detractors and everyone but his accountant share their opinions in documentarian Penny Lane's well-detailed overview.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Penny Lane's film will make you think differently about how you consume music - and even whether "consuming" is an appropriate way to approach it.
TheWrap
Steve Pond
It's a very entertaining trip, but it doesn't really go anywhere: If you go in loving Kenny G you'll come out that way, and if you go in hating him you won't change your mind.
Film Festival Today
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
Wherever one stands, this film proves an enjoyable watch.
POV Magazine
Pat Mullen
Lane leaves it to a viewer's personal taste. For many people, good sax or bad sex is purely subjective, but any sax is better than no sax at all.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
More than a mere biography of one of the most famous and divisive jazz musicians of all time, the great Lane uses Kenny G to unpack how passionate we can get about musical taste.
Vanyaland
Nick Johnston
G's success is a really, really odd story, which is explained well by Lane, who has a ton of access to G, Davis, and plenty of other members responsible for your average smooth-jazz station's ascendance and quick fall in the early '90s.
Tilt Magazine
Stephen Silver
A riotously entertaining examination of the Kenny G Wars, one that's scrupulously fair to both sides of the argument,
That Shelf
Rachel West
After watching Listening To Kenny G, I'm not quite sure audiences will get a better sense of the man behind the sax. From his time on screen, we get to know a man who is precise and very careful about his image.
Consequence
Clint Worthington
For those curious about where he came from and those who want to consider why his beloved status rubs so many people the wrong way, there's a lot to like.
rachelsreviews.net
Rachel Wagner
It's interesting how someone like Kenny G can be both hugely successful and yet seemingly equally hated. It must be a bizarre dichotomy to live in
indieWire
Christian Blauvelt
"Listening to Kenny G" is a quiet elegy for the act of arguing over art on its own terms.
Hollywood Reporter
Dan Fienberg
Mocking Kenny G has become a three-decade game of one-upmanship. And who better than Penny Lane to serve as a sort of devil's advocate, so to speak.
Globe and Mail
Brad Wheeler
Even if you'd rather die than be trapped in a broken elevator with endless Kenny G music, Lane's excellent accomplishment is making 97 minutes about the musician so much smart fun.
The Spool
Peter Sobczynski
In the end, Listening to Kenny G is a lot like actually listening to Kenny G-harmless and inoffensive as can be, but largely forgettable when all is said and done.
Solzy at the Movies
Danielle Solzman
Listening to Kenny G is a long overdue documentary that puts the polarizing musician in a new light.
The Film Stage
Jared Mobarak
[Penny Lane] proves yet again that nobody can tonally marry edification and entertainment on-screen so effortlessly.
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