The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart Reviews
Brings it all back and then some. By the end you’ll need another Kimberly-Clark product — Kleenex.
| Oct 11, 2022
The Bee Gees' flamboyance is superficial and easy to shoot down. The catalogue of great songs is another matter entirely.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2022
Marshall’s movie is about a lot more than great careers and great music.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022
This doc doesn't delve too deeply into the Bee Gees' inter-group beefs, but we do learn a lot.
| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2021
Fascinating and involving.
| Mar 9, 2021
...tells their story with care, detail and affection...
| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2021
Culminates the Bee Gees journey with a heart /soul that illuminates their greatness and human foibles. And with 3 of 4 brothers gone, another level to survivor Barry emerges.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 12, 2021
This is a well-deserved tribute, major recognition at last that this was a singular group of singer/songwriters who broke ground with their harmonies and amazing songs, and whose music will live on forever.
| Jan 9, 2021
There are neat inside-the-music stories told as well, including some involving recording legends such as Atlantic Records boss Ahmet Ertegun, and Eric Clapton. It all culminates with a heartbreaker of a final line uttered by Robin.
| Original Score: B | Dec 31, 2020
Presents the group as a microcosm of a half century of pop music and a study in the serendipity of the creative process, the eternal miasma of family relationships, the protean nature of identity, and the evanescence of success.
| Dec 31, 2020
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart was a solid documentary about the falsetto-fuelled siblings, but suffered slightly from a misleading title.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 31, 2020
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart is a specific yet universal tale that excels amid a sea of formulaic contemporaries, delivering a poignant, profound examination of some of the most enduring songs from the era.
| Dec 31, 2020
If you are already a geek-level fan, Marshall's detail-rich, interview-stuffed film will still yield many delightful gems.
| Dec 31, 2020
It's well-directed by uber-producer Frank Marshall; it has sharp comments... and it likely will offer some surprises to many unaware of the sheer scope of the Bee Gees career.
| Original Score: B | Dec 31, 2020
With a jukebox parade that will invite viewers to inevitably sing-along to classic earworms, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart is the Bee Gees documentary you've been waiting for. It's a fitting tribute to their unending love for each other.
| Dec 31, 2020
For fans, it proves their success is more than jive talkin'.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2020
Illuminating, entertaining and musically joyous, this is both a sometimes cautionary tale of fame and family, and a chance to set the record straight.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2020
Makes a great case for The Bee Gees place in pop music history.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 24, 2020
An informative, revealing look at the interpersonal dynamic at work inside one of the biggest pop music groups of the 20th century.
| Dec 22, 2020
I thoroughly enjoyed this film... A really amazing period [in music history].
| Dec 22, 2020