This revealing doc. . .highlights the many ways female artists were hampered by rampant misogyny — and soared regardless.

| Feb 13, 2024

O’Connor plays a crucial role in the industry, and her music and the documentary invites newer audiences to experience and celebrate her politics.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2023

Even though it isn't blazing any trails in originality, Nothing Compares delivers a moving tribute to O'Connor's defying and singular spirit. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 7, 2023

What was made for a world where she was still with us became a fitting and moving epitaph for a world where she now isn’t.

| Jul 31, 2023

Although the film wasn’t intended as one, it’s a worthy memorial to a fearless, bright-burning life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2023

By avoiding the sensationalistic details of Sinead O’Connor’s tumultuous personal life or surveying the entirety of her career, Nothing Compares successfully brings her long term influence into greater focus.

| Jul 26, 2023

A bold documentary about a prophetic singer and songwriter.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 28, 2023

Reframed in the current climate, it's interesting to see how O'Connor's actions may have been celebrated rather than vilified had she been in the spotlight 30/40 years later.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2023

Nothing Compares, Kathryn Ferguson’s stunning documentary on the rapid rise and fall from worldwide fame of Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor, comes at an auspicious time. We’re living in a moment where women singers who were previously vilified by...

| Original Score: A- | Jan 10, 2023

The film ends abruptly without delving into the subsequent years for the artist... But with such a compelling subject at its heart, it's a noteworthy omission in an otherwise deeply intimate portrait.

| Dec 15, 2022

The greatness of Ferguson’s film isn’t so much in the craft of the film, although it is engaging, but instead it’s in the choice to focus not on the moments that made her famous and instead focus on the lead up to these moments.

| Dec 15, 2022

Nothing Compares may not always favourably compare to other, more nuanced music biodocs, but it is a vital look at the life and work of an artist too often equated with a few seconds of paper ripping on a television variety show.

| Dec 15, 2022

Nothing Compares artfully relives the most intense part of Sinead O'Connor's career, with bracing commentary from O'Connor today.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 15, 2022

The lack of on-camera interviews in Nothing Compares focuses attention on the evocative visuals.

| Dec 15, 2022

Powerfully told and elliptically crafted, Nothing Compares ably connects Sinead O’Connor’s past and present to one powerful stretch of her nearly 40 years in music and unflinching expression of self.

| Dec 14, 2022

Nothing Compares doesn’t spend much time on Classic Albums-style deep dives into how this guitar riff came together or what inspired that ballad, preferring an emotional snapshot to a traditional rock-doc portrait.

| Dec 14, 2022

Aimed at reframing her through a contemporary lens, the tight focus is the documentary’s real strength...

| Dec 9, 2022

Never mind the familiar documentary techniques. ... This film is an argument: a case for the defense. And the argument is a good one. ... Love wins — and love is, to all appearances, all that has ever been on [O'Connor's] mind and heart.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 24, 2022

"Another entry into the ever-growing pantheon of films about women who are owed an apology, Nothing Compares is extremely effective at laying out how Sinead O’Connor found her moral conviction, and why she never abandoned it."

| Nov 19, 2022

Whether you’ve forgotten the details or didn’t know about them to begin with, Nothing Compares is here to remind us of what it really meant to have no f---s left to give in pop culture -- and the price at least one person paid for it.

| Oct 20, 2022