Musicians

Films made after the fact, which changes what they can say. Amy is built from the phone footage of friends before anyone thought to worry, Montage of Heck from Cobain's own tapes and notebooks, and One to One catches Lennon in 1972 with the television on. The best of them resist the tidy arc the death seems to offer.

• Amy (2015) ★★★
• Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017) ★★★
• Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015) ★★
• Being Frank (2018) ★★★
• Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) ★★★
• What Happened, Miss Simone (2015) ★★★
• Beastie Boys Story (2020) ★★★
• Kings From Queens: The Run-DMC Story (2024) ★
• One to One: John Lennon & Yoko Ono (2024) ★★★