20 Feet from Stardom

...as uplifting as the music is, the film most benefits from the participants' abundant gifts as storytellers.

A crowdpleaser that also tells an important story about showbiz, it’s fab. You’ll come out singing.

Morgan Neville's affectionate, entertaining, frequently bitter-sweet documentary shines a spotlight on the (largely African-American) backing singers whose precise verbal pyrotechnics have been the magic ingredient...

Jag säger inte att de sjunger för döva öron - och man måste nog vara döv för att inte uppskatta de här fantastiska tjejernas begåvning och karisma...

...doesn’t shy away from the harder truths of the industry, but it goes down easily, and is stylishly assembled, spryly executed, and satisfyingly arced to end in triumph.