Gaga: Five Foot Two never quite feels as spontaneous or illuminating as the access would suggest, unless you’re totally gaga about Gaga.

| Sep 12, 2023

The film is personal in a way that made me uncomfortable -- as if she were meting out chosen bits of information, little hunks of meat tossed into a pit of crazed alligators. The image is flattering to no one.

| Sep 12, 2023

If you want a look inside the life of a very successful singer and meet the woman behind the persona, this one certainly fits the bill.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2023

Despite the different settings in which the disorder affects Gaga, one thing’s clear: it’s not adding to her art, but acting as a hindrance to it. Five Foot Two shows a woman’s pain without any added commentary other than the subjects’ own.

| Sep 12, 2023

Episode 14: Doc Talk

| Original Score: 70/100 | Sep 1, 2021

She takes her career very seriously and always tries to push herself with each project. Even if you don't like her music, you cannot deny how gifted she is...

| Nov 5, 2020

As far as feature length advertisements go, it's a slick and well-produced one, but to pretend it's anything more than a carefully crafted bit of career reinvention would be willfully deluded.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 1, 2020

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.

| Aug 29, 2018

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.

| Mar 7, 2018

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.

| Feb 9, 2018

... 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.

| Jan 24, 2018

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.

| Dec 19, 2017

If there is something that Gaga is not, it's shy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 14, 2017

While it's merely a peek behind her rhinestone curtain, Gaga: Five Foot Two is still an interesting one.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 24, 2017

Gaga allows the camera into various realms that emphasize her vulnerability, her flaws, and her weaknesses, which only serve to empower her as a pop star by reinforcing her underlying humanity

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2017

An accessible star comes to life; language, partial nudity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2017

Five Foot Two is an entertaining and humanising documentary for this artist who started her career with a kind of alien appeal. But it's also a carefully calculated film...

| Sep 30, 2017

Gaga is on volatile form... yet can be excused a few nerves given that she will be performing in front of a global audience of 117 million, and there's enough self-awareness to temper the divadom.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2017

Lady Gaga can be a great musician, it's true. But the new documentary about her, Gaga: Five Foot Two, would make anybody unfamiliar with her question why.

| Original Score: C | Sep 28, 2017

Gaga: Five Foot Two isn't quite sure what kind of documentary it wants to be.

| Sep 28, 2017