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blur: To The End

2024 1h 45m Music Documentary List
92% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 100% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings
blur: To The End depicts the most recent chapter in the band's story, captured during the period in which they made a surprise -- and emotional -- return with their first record in 8 years, the critically acclaimed #1 album 'The Ballad of Darren'. The documentary follows the unique relationship of four friends -- and bandmates of three decades -- Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree as they came together in early 2023 to record new songs ahead of their sold-out, first ever shows at London's Wembley Stadium in July last summer. Featuring performances of their most iconic, much-loved songs, footage of the band in the studio and life on the road, blur: To The End is an intimate moment in time with this most enduring of English bands, who have been at the heart of British cultural life and influence for over three decades. Read More Read Less

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Sam Davies Sight & Sound Director Toby L takes a straightforward fly-on-the-wall approach – candid, handheld footage, with no cosy talking-head input from collaborators or commentators... There is the feeling of a group willing to let the director test their boundaries. Jul 23, 2024 Full Review Ryan Gilbey Guardian In place of the long-gone messiness that made Starshaped so compelling is a geezerish sentimental sheen, a look-how-far-we’ve-come self-regarding awe, which chimes with the title song but wears thin over 105 minutes rather than three. Rated: 3/5 Jul 17, 2024 Full Review Lou Thomas Empire Magazine Out front and backstage, this illuminating but not quite revelatory documentary shows a vulnerable, exhausted Blur and the band at their best. Interesting to casual fans, essential for devotees. Rated: 4/5 Jul 17, 2024 Full Review Alistair Harkness Scotsman The film certainly proves singularly uninterested in offering any historical context that might help explain where Blur came from musically, why they became as big as they did, and how they've managed to keep evolving creatively. Rated: 2/5 Aug 9, 2024 Full Review Dulcie Pearce The Sun (UK) If this is The End, what a way to go out. Rated: 5/5 Aug 9, 2024 Full Review Victoria Luxford City AM Blur: To The End finds the once angry young men as part of the establishment they derided, and a little wounded from the journey. Still, it’s touching to see the love they still have for one another, and fans will delight in the closing concert footage Rated: 3/5 Jul 18, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Neva A I love this film so much Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/26/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis blur: To The End depicts the most recent chapter in the band's story, captured during the period in which they made a surprise -- and emotional -- return with their first record in 8 years, the critically acclaimed #1 album 'The Ballad of Darren'. The documentary follows the unique relationship of four friends -- and bandmates of three decades -- Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree as they came together in early 2023 to record new songs ahead of their sold-out, first ever shows at London's Wembley Stadium in July last summer. Featuring performances of their most iconic, much-loved songs, footage of the band in the studio and life on the road, blur: To The End is an intimate moment in time with this most enduring of English bands, who have been at the heart of British cultural life and influence for over three decades.
Director
Toby L.
Producer
Josh Connolly
Production Co
Up The Game
Genre
Music, Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 45m