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One Direction: This Is Us
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2013
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Positive Reviews
46
Negative reviews
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3.2
Here and there, the faintest glimmer of actual drama presents itself.
Av Club
2.8
But its also a little boring.What its most definitely not is a documentary.
EW
2.5
And the heavily accented Liam Payne has an amiably goofy authenticity.
Rogerebert
3.0
What One Direction is good at is harmonizing and making even the youngest of fans (usually girls) squeal with excitement .. like that other English bo ..
Common Sense Media
3.5
Yet the films central fivesome prove charming pallbearers throughout the film, which alternates between inspired and insipid as it hits its hagiograph ..
Variety
4.5
While the live performances are fun to watch, its definitely the interviews with the band members that make 1D:3D a worthwhile documentary.
We Got This Covered
3.0
No warts, no acne theres not even a pimple on the butt of this on tour portrait of the reality bred boy popsters.
Time Out
3.0
It may be just an hour and a half commercial for the new single, Best Song Ever, and a victory lap following a successful arena tour, but credit where ..
Time Out
1.0
There is nothing comparable in his bland, colourless movie about One Direction, the boy band put together by Simon Cowell after the five had auditione ..
The Guardian
3.5
A One Direction concert movie directed by Morgan Super Size Me Spurlock.Does he experimentally listen to nothing but One Direction for a year
The Guardian
3.8
But what makes the performers worth exploring is their truly anomalous nature.
3.1
The meteoric rise of One Direction is a compelling tale of chance.
3.5
If the films production schedule, driven by the practically nonstop concert dates, seems rushed, it doesnt particularly show.
The Hollywood Reporter
2.5
amounts to little more than a big, wet kiss to the groups worldwide legions of young, female fans
2.0
The appeal of One Direction seems to be that they sing what their rapturous fans want to hear.
Paste Magazine
2.5
But the emotional reality of contemporary fame is simply not what This Is Us is about, and so such moments are relative B sides to the films breezy ca ..
3.0
Many quotes run along the lines of We have the best fans in the world.
Ny Daily News
3.8
But if youre a fan, you dont ever want it to end.This is a cinematic all you can eat sundae.
Philly
3.5
And it manages to differentiate the five guys nicely, with Styles coming across as the most self consciously on, Malik as the most quiet and introspec ..
One Guys Opinion
2.5
This is an empty film that provides no insight into its pop singer subjects, but the bumble gum band got the kind of film they deserved.
Sover
3.2
The 3D effects at Londons 02 Arena are genuinely worth a ticket upcharge.
3.1
VPC Its an entertaining look at the boy band, but its not a true documentary.
Usa Today
2.5
Considering how our preview screening audience comprised of 99% giddy female tweens and young teens reacted when the lights went down and this 3D film ..
Screen It
3.0
Its also a thoroughly entertaining exploration of a friendship strained by an extraordinary situation.
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
Whats most interesting about One Directions live performance is the quintets insistence on one thing that makes them stand out from pretty much every ..
The Wrap
1.9
Why the producers of this behind the scenes look at the boy band One Direction would choose Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurl ..
News Day
2.5
Theres a moment in One Direction: This Is Us when we glimpse a band member Liam.Louis
New York Post
2.0
Spurlock is talented, and this behind the scenes look at the U.K. based One Directions recent sold out tour of Europe, New York City and Mexico is vis ..
Film Journal International ..
3.0
This doesnt set out to be a movie that gets at anything more than making the One Direction guys look adorable, if maybe just a little darker than your ..
Az Central
2.5
Its a full on positive devotion to singers Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson.
Toronto Star
3.0
Fortunately for its commercial prospects, this pretty much defines the kind of movie that is critic proof.
Daily Mail
3.0
The on the road story is interspliced with bountiful some might say endless footage of the band in full flight at a showcase O2 gig, a performance sho ..
Flim List
3.0
But while this documentary may be as carefully constructed as the band, no amount of stage management can stop genuine emotions seeping through, and y ..
Eye For Film
3.0
Susan Grangers review of One Direction: This is Us (Columbia Tri Star Pictures/Sony) Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock first catapulted into the n ..
Susang Ranger
1.5
It should be.It should be everything a 10 year old girl thinks it is.
Movies
2.5
One Direction: This is Us rates as a burnished cinematic monument for One Direction, the British boy band that has succeeded Justin Bieber as pulse qu ..
Boston Herald
3.0
No, Im not talking about World War Z with Brad Pitt.Im taking about the years other big zombie movie, One Direction This Is Us.
Express
2.5
Spurlock achieves virtually nothing but a good time for the fans of One Direction and while I cant blame a groupie of theirs for loving this movie, it ..
The Film Stage
3.2
As slick, safe, straightforward 90 minute commercials go, This is Us also proves to be likeable harmless fluff.
Hit Fix
2.5
The point of this documentary is to make them look flawless for their fans.It feels bogus.
Aisle Seat
4.5
Perhaps the nicest surprise of the doco is that, despite emerging from the manufactured pop machine, these boys feel refreshingly grounded and theyre ..
Film Ink
4.0
Even with a pop music obsessed 7 year old in the house Id managed to resist, or block out, the charm of One Direction.Presented on the big screen in l ..
Nz Herald
3.0
They occasionally touch on the pressure of their fame, but 1D3Ds unwillingness to delve into anything stress provoking or with even the slightest hint ..
Flicks
3.1
Even when the movie avoids many relevant questions, it works as a travel comedy featuring dudes who are immature but not entitled, silly but not tires ..
Red Eye Chicago
3.0
Video The popularity of the British Irish boy band One Direction has been fueled largely by extraordinarily active Twitter fans, mostly tween and teen ..
Ny Times
3.0
Filmmaker Spurlock (Super Size Me) is known for his investigative wit, but theres none of that in this on message doc about the most successful boy ba ..
Contact Music
3.5
Instead, they are as manufactured as any post Monkees boy band can ever be, an accidental amalgamation of ex X Factor contestants who all believed the ..
Film Racket
1.5
If your teen or tween is a fan you can certainly go far more wrong than taking them to this light yet reasonably entertaining band.
3.0
Youll be screaming when they take off their shirts and youll be swooning when they do something cheeky.But what if youre not a One Direction fan
The Film Pie
3.1
Spurlock keeps everything surface level and seems uninterested in diving any deeper than discussions of fans and friendship.
Js Online
2.0
Even with all the SFX overlays, its questionable whether any of this is entertaining enough to sustain even a svelte 92 minute runtime, but Spurlock a ..
The Dissolve
3.0
Well have none of that in our PG rated, 92 minute film.But then, One Direction doesnt really need it.
Crave Online
4.0
Theres no booze, no drugs, no swearing and absolutely no girls.The nearest these lads get to groupie action is when a twinkly old dear pinches Harrys ..
Metro
2.5
Theres no angst or ill will among them, and it serves as much as an infomercial for the One Direction brand as it does as a concert film.
Fat Guys At The Movies
4.0
In common with many parts of this sophisticated movie, it may be fake but that doesnt make it any less real.
New States Man
1.5
Whats super odd about this film is its director, Morgan Spurlock. Best known as an activist documentarian...its a bit of a shock to see his controvers ..
Tiny Url
1.0
Even Nialls schtick of whipping up or quieting down a mass of waiting fans seems the most innocuous metaphor imaginable for the manipulation that, une ..
Vue Weekly
2.0
Non fans will consider this a Zzz factor, at least until being rendered defenseless by the sweet, sweet boys and their sweet, sweet tunes.
Sf Weekly
2.5
You could be forgiven for rolling your eyes last summer at the news that last summers flashy pre fab pop phenomenon One Direction would be releasing a ..
Wp Me
3.0
Still, its a decent enough watch and you cant fail to warm to the band for their honest relish of a success that didnt seem likely when they rolled in ..
Sky
2.0
What little insight we get is fascinating but it just makes you want more than just endless goofing and touring and stage managed shenanigans.
Standard Net Au
3.0
Amid the youthful frivolity and the boys sharing a Swedish campfire to wonder how long theyll stay together, a Doors T shirt is a reminder of how it c ..
Birmingham Mail
3.8
At the beginning of One Direction: This Is Us, I had a tough time distinguishing between Swifts ex and the other elaborately coiffed members of boy ba ..
Twin Cities
3.5
Like their music, the film proves to be inoffensively genial, if surface deep.
The Movie Report
0.0
One Direction: This Is Us hardly is a documentary or even a concert film.Its a 90 minute commercial for One Direction desperately trying to convince u ..
Dc5
5.0
The picture is trippy in places, making it more pleasant to sit through the forgettable songs than it otherwise would be.
7 Dvt
4.5
This Is Us is packed with nonstop energy and cheeky good fun, courtesy of its likable young leads.
News Ok
1.0
Like One Direction, Metallica is selling itself through the never of taste.
Film International
3.8
Hardly, but as pop songs go, its serves its purpose as a three minute diversion, and before you know it, my feet are tapping, and Im singing softly to ..
News Gazette
3.0
And the heightened spectacle of 3D just isnt enough on its own anymore.
Nonfics
3.5
Older folks will smile, the film is just plain fun to watch and the music is poppy and quite lovely at times.
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