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- 2020
- TV-MA
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 38 m
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 38 m
Summary The Go-Go's are the most successful female rock band of all time. This documentary chronicles the meteoric rise of a band born of the LA punk scene that not only captured but created a zeitgeist.
Directed By: Alison Ellwood
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 38 m
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 38 m
The Go-Go's
7.8
Summary The Go-Go's are the most successful female rock band of all time. This documentary chronicles the meteoric rise of a band born of the LA punk scene that not only captured but created a zeitgeist.
Directed By: Alison Ellwood
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
81
93% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
7% Mixed
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1 Review
0% Negative
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The Go-Go’s tackles the seminal all-female ’80s rock band with such honesty, openness and effervescence that it not only rises above that clichéd, almost telegraphed arc but transcends the ranks of other music documentaries to offer a story you desperately want to keep watching, even when you already know where it’s going.
Well-executed interviews of key people and all band members, along with excellent animation and archival research, The Go-Go’s reveals a story of talent, will, friendship, addiction, and forgiveness. The backdrop of the male-dominated music business highlights that these ladies who have stayed brash and whipsmart have always been entirely punk.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
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83% Positive
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8% Mixed
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Ellwood’s most valuable views are these more candid, honest looks, as there’s something refreshing about the band coming clean, revealing all its dirty laundry in a no-holds-barred manner.
As director Alison Ellwood shows in her briskly entertaining documentary—The Go-Go’s—the band’s members can explain away, with enormous charm, the naked ambition that made them the most successful “girl group” ever.
The doc’s goal: Don’t think of the Go-Go’s as a bit of Reagan-era nostalgia, the musical equivalent of a Rubik’s cube. Think of them as a first-tier, kick-ass rock group, period, full stop, the end. Mission accomplished.
Entertaining and richly sourced documentary.
This film by Alison Ellwood feels thin. Anemic. Even shortsighted. Sure, the documentary frames the band’s story with that astounding fact of their first number one record, but beyond that underscored point, “The Go-Go’s” plays like paint by numbers for music documentaries.
Production Company
Polygram Entertainment
Release Date Jul 31, 2020
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating TV-MA
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Awards
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
FOCAL International Awards
• 1 Nomination
