Plays like the last 20 minutes of a Behind the Music episode.

| Original Score: D- | Sep 18, 2021

Both amiable and appealing. Just don't expect to see an accurate portrait of life on the road, will you.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2019

The YouTube era has seen many stars shine, but no story -- not even Justin Bieber's -- is as extraordinary as that of Arnel Pineda.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 14, 2018

Inspiring despite issues with pacing, which will be more pronounced for those not inclined to think about Journey.

| Aug 30, 2018

A glorified home movie, complete with self-congratulary smugness from the band's original members.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 1, 2014

Pineda's humility is a rare rockumentary commodity, but the film around him is riven with underarticulated tensions: any suspicion that the management might have employed third-world labour to enable the show to go on is simply shrugged off.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 15, 2014

Rather than a faux psychological analysis, the film offers instead a general commentary on how class, race, and nationality-as well as gender, even more generally-shape Arnel's experience.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 30, 2013

By the time the band arrives in Manila for Pineda's emotional homecoming, every note feels as if it's been earned.

| Sep 30, 2013

Once this new Journey has become a success, "Don't Stop Believin'" doesn't have a whole lot more to say on the subject.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2013

All mic-ed up, but also all mixed up, this indulgently apportioned doc is a glad-handing fan project all the way.

| Original Score: C | Mar 25, 2013

A heartfelt verité portrait of American pop rock as a global product, reaching into the slums of Manila, and filling stadiums around the world with happy, smiling people.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 18, 2013

It feels selectively edited toward a predetermined point of view.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 14, 2013

The film is mostly surface-value kicks, relaying the basic parts of the story (poor guy battling drug and alcohol addiction suddenly makes it big) without being particularly probing or revealing too many shades of gray.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 11, 2013

Entertaining and well-edited, but ultimately shallow.

| Original Score: 6.1/10 | Mar 9, 2013

Pineda is consistently treated as human rather than legend. It's completely appropriate that the film is just good enough, nothing too extraordinary or lasting in our minds.

| Original Score: B | Mar 9, 2013

Applause for its ambition in scope, which makes it far more than just a commercial for some 80s band's latest nostalgia tour.

| Original Score: B | Mar 8, 2013

This movie works beyond just a modern-day fairy tale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 8, 2013

Real-life Cinderella story with quiet emotion and a down-to-earth working band make this rock documentary far more than an episode of "Behind the Music."

| Mar 8, 2013

Watching Don't Stop Believin' one always gets the sense that there's a larger story that Diaz can't -- or simply doesn't want to -- tell.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2013

As inspiring as much of (Arnel) Pineda's story is, Filipina director Ramona S. Diaz may be a little too enamored with her subject and, subsequently, comes across at times as less than objective.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 8, 2013