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

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

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

Meaty and mesmerizing... It's a film that feels both overdue and timely.

| Oct 14, 2022

It’s small wonder that she effectively torpedoed the stardom she never much wanted anyway.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2022

Insightful, respectful and thorough.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 2022

It becomes a fascinating portrait of fame under fire and reluctant, self-hating stardom. And then suddenly the narrative just dies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 7, 2022

Her enormously engaging dry wit — a humour unique to Dublin, perhaps — keeps the film lively through its darker valleys. She is never painted as a mute victim. She remains an engaged presence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 7, 2022

Ferguson is very effective in helping us to understand O’Connor’s complex character, shaped partly by the horrific emotional and physical abuse she experienced from her mother as a child.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2022

A bracing guide to a brilliant individual who declined to conform.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2022

Her story is extraordinary, from a bleak childhood to early stardom to enormous controversy. Raw and poignant, it’s about O’Connor’s amazing voice and the trouble it caused.

| Sep 30, 2022

“Nothing Compares” plunges viewers into the chaos and controversy surrounding a singer who has at times been talked about more than heard.

| Sep 30, 2022

As an intimate, often infuriating portrait of an artist and era, it's hard to argue with the raw power of the story on screen — and the timeliness of it too, no matter how long overdue.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 28, 2022

[Nothing Compares] wants us to think about the way O’Connor’s influence is reflected in today’s outspoken female performers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2022

A worthwhile appreciation of the artist.

| Sep 22, 2022

This documentary is comprehensive and meditative, but it doesn’t spend enough time on her mesmerizing voice and earthy performances.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 11, 2022

A feminist portrait that presents us with a celebrity who has remained true to herself and suffered the consequences.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 3, 2022

Nothing Compares is a bold re-examination of O'Connor's all-too-brief window of wider influence, and a searing critique of the sexist and conservative backlash that led to her retreat from public life.

| Original Score: B | Jan 28, 2022

The focus of Kathryn Ferguson's first feature-length film is O'Connor's ahead-of-the-mainstream courage, and her outrage.

| Jan 26, 2022