Taylor Swift: Miss Americana

""Miss Americana" is 85 minutes of translucence with Taylor Swift. There's more in it - and more to it - than you usually get with these pop superstar portraits."

"Although certainly an insightful study of the pop star's populated psyche, Miss Americana is more of a mid-album track than an anthem."

"Swift makes for a fascinating documentary subject, both generous and withholding, frank and elusive... as a standalone illustration, Miss Americana has too much blank space, voids in its portraiture that are all too quickly filled in with doubt."

"Whether or not you're a fan of Swift at the start of the film, you're likely to be by the end."

"It's brand management dressed up as insight and while it's not not entertaining, it's certainly far from particularly revealing, playing more like a PR exercise than a festival-worthy feature."

"What's ultimately very endearing about Swift is her intelligence and self-awareness, qualities that also make her music compelling, sophisticated and capable of appealing both to adolescent kids and hipster musicologists."

"A fascinating look at the ridiculous double standards and extreme pressures put upon young women who grow up in the spotlight (with bonus footage of some very cute kittens)."

"In "Miss Americana," the vision Taylor Swift presents of herself is just chancy and sincere enough to draw us in."