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Critics Consensus: Gaga: Five Foot Two offers an absorbing glimpse of its superstar subject's backstage life, albeit one weakened by inconsistent focus and a dearth of performance footage.
Critic Consensus: Gaga: Five Foot Two offers an absorbing glimpse of its superstar subject's backstage life, albeit one weakened by inconsistent focus and a dearth of performance footage.
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Gaga: Five Foot Two isn't quite sure what kind of documentary it wants to be.
... for now, Gaga is asking not for applause but understanding.
Five Foot Two never quite shakes the feel of a longform advert for Gaga's new phase that's preaching to the converted.
Manages to create a sense of intimacy and revelation, even as we sense that there is really no such thing as an unguarded moment for Lady Gaga.
There's a noirish glamour ... Conversely, there are moments of raw and casual power.
A star isn't born here, she's diminished.
When you're an icon of this stature, the voyeur in us wants to get to know the person behind all this glamorous machinery. Mourkarbel delivers that glimpse in spades.
But aside from the story about her aunt and a few brief mentions about her split from Taylor Kinney, there's not an arc to the documentary, let alone stakes.
An ironic sort of vanity piece in that it tries to be such an anti-vanity piece -- bluntly intimate, rather than a peek behind the curtain -- but it feels honest all the way.
... I was grateful for its moments of ambition and for the look at Gaga as an artist whose hard work in creating music and an experience to surround that music is second to none in the pop universe right now.
While Gaga: Five Foot Two is engaging enough to satisfy fans, and she is certainly interesting and likeable enough to hold your attention for the 100 minutes, its ultimately a little disappointing. Boring even.
If there is something that Gaga is not, it's shy. [Full review in Spanish]
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