Why are these guys so boring? It’s a mystery that won’t be probed by director Bernard MacMahon and co-writer Allison McGourty, who tick off the usual gigs and recording anecdotes on the rise to fame with a then-this-happened dutifulness.

| Feb 18, 2025

The master-musicianship that the press initially overlooked, and which the tales of bad behaviour obscure, is front and centre here.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2025

For the duration of this film I was in a forgiving mood, won over by the visceral thrill of the band’s sound.

| Feb 13, 2025

A hagiographic look at the group’s beginnings, the movie is as straightforward as it is headbangingly diverting.

| Feb 13, 2025

Not much footage exists of early Led Zeppelin shows, and what there is often resembles Impressionist paintings when blown up to IMAX heights from its likely 16-mm film sources. Yet the sound is consistently fantastic and the energy is electric.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 10, 2025

The main attraction is finally the music, of which there is plenty.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 7, 2025

Overall, this is a likable and well-researched film, but there is something unsatisfying in ignoring the band’s later stages. Perhaps Part II is in the works.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 6, 2025

A rich vein of anecdotes is found in Page and Jones's busy history as session players, with Jones particularly emerging as an affable raconteur with a juicy portfolio of anecdotes.

| Oct 1, 2021

For a movie called "Becoming Led Zeppelin," this one could have done a lot better job of filling in the becoming.

| Sep 6, 2021

If you're a diehard fan, you'll probably glory in what the film delivers and wish there were more of it; if you're not, you may find yourself power-chorded into submission sometime before the 2-hour and 17-minute running time comes to an end.

| Sep 6, 2021

All "Becoming Led Zeppelin" has to say is that its subjects were virtuoso musicians who enjoyed what they were doing.

| Original Score: C | Sep 6, 2021

Big swaths of this could be cut without damaging the film at all. But odds are that any viewer who really resents these stretches would not be all that interested in an 80-minute Led Zeppelin film either.

| Sep 6, 2021