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.



The Ballad of Wallis Island(2025)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Sian Clifford, Tim Key, Tom Basden,
James Griffiths,

An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favorite musicians to perform at his home.



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.



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.



Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere(2025)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Bruce Springsteen's journey crafting his 1982 album Nebraska, which emerged as he recorded Born in the USA with the E Street Band. Based on Warren Zanes' book.



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.



Lurker(2025)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A retail employee infiltrates the inner circle of an artist on the verge of stardom. As he gets closer to the budding music star, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.



Spinal Tap II: The End Continues(2025)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 67

The band reunite after a 15-year break for one final concert.



Opus(2025)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A writer travels to the compound of a pop icon who disappeared years ago. Surrounded by his cult of sycophants, as well as a group of fellow journalists, she soon discovers his twisted plans for the gathering.



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.



The History of Sound(2025)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Two young men during World War I set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen.



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.




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