Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (2006)
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 121
Fresh: 106 | Rotten: 15
Though ostensibly an intimate look at the Dixie Chicks after their 2003 anti-Bush remark, the film achieves broader relevance by exploring how media, politics, and celebrities intertwine.
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 3
Though ostensibly an intimate look at the Dixie Chicks after their 2003 anti-Bush remark, the film achieves broader relevance by exploring how media, politics, and celebrities intertwine.
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Between 1998 and 2002, it seemed the Dixie Chicks could do no wrong. Their first major-label album, Wide Open Spaces, was a smash hit, topping the country charts and eventually selling 12 million copies, while their subsequent albums Fly and Home respectively moved ten and six million units. Their concert tours were consistent sellouts, making them the most commercially successful female group in the history of the recording industry. However, things took an unexpected turn for the Dixie Chicks
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All Critics (130) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (108) | Rotten (15) | DVD (16)
Shut Up and Sing tells the story of three young women whose belief in America is bred in the bone, and it shames their critics.
Top CriticIn today's polarized America, you pick who you stand with, even in pop culture. Kopple's film makes that choice stark...
A superior rockumentary.
A fascinating look at the intersection of commerce, celebrity, and controversy.
A thoughtful and enjoyable documentary from Barbara Kopple.
[Natalie Maines] makes it clear in this astonishingly candid, intimate film that she doesn't think she has anything to apologize for.
The thrust of the movie lies in the trenchant mix of image-rebuilding strategies and genuine politicization the Chicks undergo
The most inspiring element of the film is the genuine fortitude and loyalty that Maines and her bandmates Emily Robinson and Martie Maguire exhibit outwardly and to one another.
Chicks chirp about free speech in passionate docu.
Free speech and its ramifications are at the heart of "Shut Up & Sing," which recognizes that for the celebrity, engaging in a public exchange of ideas and opinions isn't always without its costs. The price can be dire.
The movie isn't quite the idolatrous you-go-girl portrait one might expect.
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Foreign Titles
- The Dixie Chicks - Shut Up and Sing (DE)
- Shut Up & Sing (UK)
