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By Luke Hicks (31) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 20 Jul 2021

It isn’t the most entertaining version of a Velvet Underground documentary, but it’s the truest to the group…

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By Stephen Garrett (65) for Observer (1,042) on 13 Jul 2021

A sonic-boom look at a seismic band, The Velvet Underground dissects one of the most influential 1960s musical acts with dizzying visual flair…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 12 Jul 2021

At its best, Haynes’ film is neither a dry accounting of who the Velvets were nor a heady evocation of their work; it’s a movie about the…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 12 Jul 2021

The Velvet Underground is not the kind of music documentary that dutifully walks the viewer through the greatest hits and bitterest feuds…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Jul 2021

As a collage of the period, The Velvet Underground is dazzling: a hypnotic act of high-wire montage…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 12 Jul 2021

This is a great documentary about people who are serious about music and serious also about art, and what it means to live as an artist…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Jul 2021

Making ingenious use of split-screen, experimental montage and densely layered images and sound over two fabulously entertaining hours, Haynes…

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By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Jul 2021

The VU feels like it’s told from the perspective of the band members and is always veering far away from talking-head doc standards…

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By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 12 Jul 2021

It’s a dark, disturbing and glorious film about a dark, disturbing and glorious band, and another sign that Haynes knows how to put music…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 12 Jul 2021

In short, The Velvet Underground is a documentary that meets the Velvet Underground eye-to-eye and enriches it…

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By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Jul 2021

Todd Haynes’s documentary excitingly captures an era’s explosion of creativity, one that bespoke new and challenging kinds of freedom…

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