Whether you consider yourself a fan of Beyoncé or not, after watching Beyoncé’s Homecoming, there’s no denying her dedication to her craft while simultaneously uplifting and celebrating Black culture.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jan 17, 2023

Are there killer performances, musical mash-ups, and dance routines? Sure. But what really makes this music doc stand-out besides the talent of its star is the intimate look fans are given into Beyoncé's personal life...

| Dec 29, 2021

The behind-the-scenes stuff is indeed fascinating, but no match for the revelatory experience of Beyonce's performance itself, which lives up to everything you may have heard.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2020

Too many people still treat African American culture with willful amnesia or purposeful neglect. This kind of affirmation and condensed schooling is just what we need to cut through the nonsense.

| Feb 25, 2020

This show represented something different, as it was more in tune with her roots than what a mostly white audience at the music festival in California could begin to understand.

| Dec 11, 2019

She of course looks amazing.

| Dec 11, 2019

Beyoncé crafted the masterpiece with black pride and the spirit of historically black colleges and universities.

| Dec 11, 2019

Her performance celebrated HBCUs, feminism, activism and the African-American community.

| Dec 11, 2019

Homecoming solidified her reign as the hardest-working musician in the industry - and her fans' loyalty.

| Dec 11, 2019

She may have brought the culture to Coachella in 2018, but in 2019, she gave it to the world.

| Dec 11, 2019

Homecoming is not your standard concert film by any stretch.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 11, 2019

Homecoming is carefully crafted to underscore the hallowed, historic status of #Beychella.

| Aug 19, 2019

At the glittering centre of it all is Beyoncé herself: master maker of her own modern myth; an uber-perfectionist capitalist surveying her multimedia empire.

| Jul 23, 2019

If you don't get why Beyoncé is worshipped as a goddess, this glorious pop spectacle - part concert film, part myth-in-the-making - will fix that. Enormously entertaining, and absolutely landmark.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 14, 2019

an all-singing, all-dancing, all jiggling and jiving celebration of music, feminism, black culture, performance power

| May 13, 2019

In addition to her unforgettable performance, Homecoming pays homage to the black experience, blending allusions to African American history while celebrating Beyoncé's triumph as the first black woman to headline Coachella.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 6, 2019

Beyoncé's Coachella concert film Homecoming is peak self-mythologization, an astonishing accomplishment that centers the personal as political.

| May 1, 2019

Non-Beylievers should check out Homecoming, too: it's unabashedly indulgent at nearly two-and-a-half hours, but conveys a more tactile, communal sense of her star magnetism than you might glean from her mirror-sheen recordings.

| Apr 29, 2019

It's not because she's extraordinarily beautiful, although she is that. Rather, it's her raw power, strength and determination - the way she commands the attention of thousands of people with a single look, one that challenges you to underestimate her.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2019

...a literal pyramid of performance-art positivity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 26, 2019