Michael Jackson’s This Is It (Sony)

Daily Variety (Andrew Barker): “‘This Is It’ is assembled with great care, belying its impromptu nature, and editors Don Brochu, Brandon Key, Tim Patterson and Kevin Stitt have done excellent work to pull together a coherent film from endless footage.”

Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt): “An absorbing glimpse at a concert that, tragically, never happened.”

Los Angeles Times (Ann Powers): “Not reaching those masses was the final tragedy of Jackson’s life. Occasionally, he’s shown offering creative direction to his collaborators, and the steel in his voice reveals how much the world he was creating onstage meant to him. Everything, really: enough to push himself to the edge of human endurance.”

New York Times (Manohla Dargis): “Death returned Michael Jackson’s humanity, and in a curious, tentative way so too does “Michael Jackson’s This Is It,” a rushed and ragged monument to the man, his work and the commercial interests of those he left behind.”