An emotional [and] beautifully rendered story.

| Sep 26, 2017

Miss Sharon Jones! is pure joy.

| Nov 8, 2016

The film's real success lies in having Jones as its primary subject, and that's because she's a wickedly funny, fierce, phenomenal force of nature, a positive, vivacious character whose generosity and charisma touches every single person.

| Aug 25, 2016

"You think you've seen something/ Lord, I've just begun," Sharon Jones sings, and you don't doubt her for a second.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 25, 2016

Initially dismissed by a record exec as "too black, too short, too old," to succeed, dynamic R&B powerhouse Sharon Jones wasn't about to let that, or anything else, stop her.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2016

We don't learn enough about Jones away from her cancer. And because Jones is not especially insightful about her disease (not many people could be), we don't learn enough about her within it, either.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2016

Miss Sharon Jones! benefits from Jones' willingness to let Kopple keep filming no matter what.

| Aug 16, 2016

What makes "Miss Sharon Jones" most captivating is how its subject, in spite of hardship, remains a magnetic stage presence.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 11, 2016

Yes, cancer sucks. But frankly, there's nothing distinctive about this documentary, even though it's about a very distinctive person.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 10, 2016

Illuminating and often powerful, if not always satisfying ...

| Aug 4, 2016

A fine tribute to her as an individual. But it leaves you wanting more - more from her history and rich backstory.

| Original Score: B | Jul 29, 2016

Barbara Kopple's cinema has always been about capturing the immediacy of the moment, and what she finds here is a woman morphing before her very eyes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 29, 2016

When she bounds onstage with a holler and a howl - and diction that nails every last word to the melody - it's clear she deserves that exclamation point in the title.

| Jul 28, 2016

Despite a hefty number of tears shed throughout the course of the film, Kopple never plays up fraught situations for cheap emotions or knee-jerk reactions.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 28, 2016

A genuinely uplifting testament to one woman's resilience.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 28, 2016

Kopple's film is intimate and rousing.

| Jul 26, 2016

In the empowering tradition of Shut Up & Sing, Running From Crazy and Force of Nature, veteran documentarian Barbara Kopple serves up another portrait of female strength and resilience with Miss Sharon Jones!

| Jul 21, 2016

Kopple, maker of 1976's still-shocking labor documentary Harlan County U.S.A., is incapable of producing a typical music doc (even if this one has the arc for it).

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2016

The life force of the film is the music, a periodic challenge to keep on keeping on.

| Mar 31, 2016

No mere music doc, Barbara Kopple's celebration of soul queen Sharon Jones captures the tiny singer's incredible strength in the face of cancer.

| Mar 19, 2016