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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Dec 2015

The portrait that emerges is one of a brash, talented girl who grew up an outcast in her small Texas town…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for Washington Post (9,851) on 03 Dec 2015

Although Joplin’s brief life was eventful, its contradictions would stymie a tidy biopic…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 02 Dec 2015

I'd like ya to feel like standin' up and jumpin' up and down in time to the music, gettin' sweaty, just goin' with the music, just goin': Rock…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 30 Nov 2015

The unexpected element is a series of letters (some never before heard) Joplin wrote to her family back home in Port Arthur, Texas, read by…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 27 Nov 2015

Although Ms…

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By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 25 Nov 2015

While we still anticipate the definitive biopic about Janis Joplin [...] this warm and revealing doc makes the waiting easier…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 24 Nov 2015

A terrific film, not as moving or damning as this year’s Amy Winehouse expose, but a warm piece of cinematic scholarship…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Nov 2015

Whenever the story starts to drag, Berg cuts to a scene like Big Brother’s era-defining performance of “Ball And Chain” at Monterey,…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 24 Nov 2015

The movie doesn’t rise above its music-doc formula of photo, clip, talking head…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 24 Nov 2015

Amy Berg’s deeply sympathetic documentary on Janis Joplin — a singer whose shredded wail tapped reservoirs of pain — gets so much right,…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Nov 2015

As the film heaps all its sadnesses on us, the rest of Joplin languishes unexamined…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Nov 2015

It grounds us so effectively in Joplin's emotional realm as to partially rekindle the social transcendence that her voice must have represented…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for BBC.com (1,500) on 16 Nov 2015

It's only 92 minutes long, but it draws the audience into a magisterial biography; it's electric, intimate and heartbreaking…

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By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 16 Nov 2015

While there are numerous dynamite performance clips, Berg's film is generally more revealing on a personal level than as an appreciation of her music…

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By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Nov 2015

While aesthetically it doesn’t do much to break the form, it more than succeeds in presenting Joplin as a flawed, insecure, deeply brilliant…

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By Virginia M (39) on 08 Nov 2015

Saw this documentary at SF International Film Society last night. This is a brilliant film…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Sep 2015

Berg’s film is no stylistic innovator itself, but it’s the satisfying feature-length overview that Joplin’s brief, fiercely brilliant…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 18 Sep 2015

Berg's Little Girl Blue inevitably concentrates on the tragic parabola of the life without fully getting to the heart of the art…

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By Kate Erbland (681) for Indiewire (3,631) on 18 Sep 2015

Long-time fans of Joplin's music will likely not find much new material to relish in Janis: Little Girl Blue, and if the film earns any new…

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