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By Sophie Monks Kaufman (221) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 05 Feb 2016

A soft woman emerges. Her singing voice may have sounded like a soul cut by sandpaper, but her speaking voice was polite and gentle…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Radio Times (2,421) on 04 Feb 2016

It traces the arc of Joplin's growth as an artist and gives a hint of the performer she could have become, as she learns to harness the innately…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 04 Feb 2016

Amy J Berg's portrait of Janis Joplin is moving and well researched - a cautionary tale of a rock star cut down in her prime…

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By Kate Muir (612) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 04 Feb 2016

Janis: Little Girl Blue is a fascinating, flower-powered documentary on the short life and long-lived music of Janis Joplin…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 04 Feb 2016

She emerges here as a raw and uncompromising talent; her voice tends towards a gravelly roar of rage and need…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 04 Feb 2016

Despite the gloomy title and the subject's tragic demise, this valuable documentary of incendiary 1960s blues rocker Janis Joplin is actually…

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By David Parkinson (764) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 04 Feb 2016

Although packed with compelling archive footage, this never quite gets into Joplin's head, heart or soul…

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By Angie Errigo (463) for The List (2,018) on 01 Feb 2016

Baby boomers will shed a tear for this little girl lost and thrill to her rare musical power, while whippersnappers who know naught of Janis…

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By Glenn Dunks (375) for Film Experience (395) on 20 Jan 2016

lacks anything truly special to set it apart from any number of similar documentaries…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 07 Jan 2016

I’d like to think of the singer watching this movie somewhere, nodding in thanks at what it gets right and howling with laughter at what it misses…

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By Stel P (170) on 06 Jan 2016

Janis: Little Girl Blue es un documental revelador para los conocedores del icono Pop y altamente recomendado para todos aquellos que saben…

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By Andre D (1,970) on 06 Jan 2016

Janis: Little Girl Blue es un documental revelador para los conocedores del icono Pop y altamente recomendado para todos aquellos que saben…

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By Jeff C (866) on 29 Dec 2015

An informative and heartbreaking look into the life of Janis Joplin…

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By Ro'ber S (16) on 23 Dec 2015

One of the most honest films I have ever seen…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 10 Dec 2015

Janis: Little Girl Blue is like other documentaries about rock stars lost or brilliant artists remembered, setting an inevitable conclusion…

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By Cathie L (14) on 05 Dec 2015

I heard so much about her but did not know her or her music…

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By Robert Horton (590) for HeraldNet (Everett, WA) (288) on 04 Dec 2015

Director Amy Berg interviews Joplin's old colleagues, and it's good to hear people speak of her without turning her into a plaster saint…

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By Lorraine Ali (13) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 03 Dec 2015

From this pastiche Joplin emerges as we've never seen her before, articulate, ambitious, torn between her wild self and her desperate need…

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By Leah Pickett (132) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Dec 2015

Though sluggish in the middle section, the film is nonetheless effective in illustrating how a star as incendiary as Joplin could dim and ultimately…

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By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 03 Dec 2015

The documentary “Amy” left viewers feeling a little shame, as if the audience and society was an accessory in Winehouse’s death…

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