Best Music movies of recent years

A Complete Unknown(2024)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 82

In 1961, an unknown 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York City with his guitar and forges relationships with musical icons on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking performance that reverberates around the world.



Elvis(2022)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.



Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour(2023)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Experience the Eras Tour concert, performed by the one and only Taylor Swift.



Kneecap(2024)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, DJ Próvai,
Rich Peppiatt,

When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise and Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.



Marry Me(2022)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Music superstars Kat Valdez and Bastian are getting married before a global audience of fans. But when Kat learns, seconds before her vows, that Bastian has been unfaithful, she instead decides to marry Charlie, a stranger in the crowd.



Weird: The Al Yankovic Story(2022)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Explores every facet of Yankovic's life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like 'Eat It' and 'Like a Surgeon' to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle.



Back to Black(2024)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 63

The life and music of Amy Winehouse, through the journey of adolescence to adulthood and the creation of one of the best-selling albums of our time.



The Greatest Night in Pop(2024)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 59

On January 28th 1985, dozens of the era's most popular musicians gathered in Los Angeles to record a charity single for African famine relief. Setting egos aside, they collaborated on a song that would make history.



The Piano Lesson(2024)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Follows the lives of the Charles family as they deal with themes of family legacy and more, in deciding what to do with an heirloom, the family piano.



Priscilla(2023)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 88

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.



Maestro(2023)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 87

This love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.



Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat(2024)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.



Metal Lords(2022)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Two friends try to form a heavy metal band with a cellist for a Battle of the Bands.



Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody(2022)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, one of the greatest female R&B pop vocalists of all time, tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.



Studio 666(2022)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album.



The Greatest Hits(2024)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A love story centering on the connection between music and memory and how they transport us, sometimes literally.



Evil Does Not Exist(2023)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a glamping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.



Robot Dreams(2023)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Based on the popular graphic novel by the North American writer Sara Varon, ROBOT DREAMS tells the adventures and misfortunes of Dog and Robot in NYC during the '80s.



Music by John Williams(2024)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 61

Follows the life of legendary composer John Williams.



Beatles '64(2024)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Captures the band's electrifying 1964 US debut amid fan frenzy. With rare behind-the-scenes footage, it chronicles their unprecedented rise to global superstardom after performing on The Ed Sullivan Show to over 73 million viewers.




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