Though Pavement is the star and the performers in its orbit are all in supporting roles, “Pavements” is distinguished by cinematic artistry that’s as distinctive as it is personal. “Range Life” may be a Pavement story, but “Pavements” is a Perry film.

| May 2, 2025

Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is about music. The result is delightfully destabilizing.

| May 2, 2025

"Works remarkably well as an informative recounting of the band’s history, a reality-bending experiment, and a distillation of the Pavement spirit, in which irony masquerading as earnestness could sometimes serve as cover for a subterranean sincerity."

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2025

Is as gleefully idiosyncratic and as suspicious of mainstream success as the band and its fans.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 2, 2025

“Selling out” may be a fading notion, belonging to an older era of fanzines and cassette tapes. Yet in his work Mr. Perry keeps alive ideas of authenticity vs. falsity, of the struggle to stay true to something in a crass commercial world.

| May 2, 2025

It captures the artistry, ingenuity and humor of its subject better than an encyclopedic history ever could – a music doc for whom success, in the spirit of Pavement, looks very different.

| Jan 26, 2025

While passion didn’t necessarily appear to be part of Pavement’s persona, Perry feels obliged to overcompensate... It’s impossible not to be won over by the director’s efforts.

| Dec 4, 2024

Alex Ross Perry’s Cubist portrait finds a fitting balance between reverence and mischievousness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 2, 2024

A joyous, slyly subversive celebration that, while unlikely to persuade newcomers to the music, nevertheless catches the band’s wayward spirit, as well as the downright ordinariness that came as an alternative to the bloated rock band ethos.

| Sep 5, 2024

It’s a reminder that the fourth (and fifth and sixth) wall can be smashed, that the rock doc can be reinvented. And that when the message is meta for meta’s sake, why not make the medium that way, too?

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 5, 2024

I’m not sure that the bit doesn’t wear out its welcome in this incredibly long film (over two hours), but I absolutely admire everyone’s commitment to it.

| Sep 4, 2024

This multifaceted meta-movie is at once documentary, musical comedy, faux biopic and real museum exhibition.

| Sep 4, 2024