From bucket-of-water tomfoolery to visually inventive biography and witty musicology, this really does have something for the girl with everything.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 1, 2021

The Sparks Brothers film is smart, funny, infectiously weird, a little geeky, a little too long, a little niche, and consistently entertaining.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 30, 2021

The film is too long and, although Wright hopes it will convert heathens, it's still probably one for the fans. The Maels, however, make enjoyably unpredictable hosts.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2021

Less a documentary than an intensive course of art-pop hypnotherapy: even those who enter the cinema knowing next to nothing about the pair will leave feeling like lifelong enthusiasts.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2021

Wright presents an unabashed love letter to a band he clearly loves and does it with style, humour and great attention to detail.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2021

Wright's film has converted me. Sparks are the Gilbert and George of pop music.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2021

Canters joyfully through their biographies, pop history and - like all the best rock docs - an array of topics that intersect with the subject at hand.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 28, 2021

A documentary of granular detail and depth that showcases Sparks in all their glorious, indefatigable absurdity, while leaving a clear mark of mystery.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2021

Wright, whose features include Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver, has made a terrifically informed and affectionate documentary about this duo.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2021

So here we have Edgar Wright's thoroughly entertaining, if somewhat rambling, documentary about the brothers, and it's just as odd as you might hope but funnier than expected.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2021

Wright successfully demystifies the enigma that is Sparks while adding to the mythology.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 23, 2021

[Edgar Wright] is such a good filmmaker, and he's made a really fun, creatively challenging movie that's worth seeing whether you're a fan or not.

| Jun 22, 2021

At its best, The Sparks Brothers courses with the energy of one of your smartest friends talking your ear off about their favorite band.

| Original Score: B | Jun 21, 2021

I am a newcomer to the Sparks phenomenon but now that I've seen Wright's new documentary The Sparks Brothers I'm a believer.

| Jun 21, 2021

'The Sparks Brothers' makes you want to know them better.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 21, 2021

"The Sparks Brothers" zips along at such a breezy, informational pace that you notice its length only in the final stretch, when the film's reduced to ticking off the albums as they keep coming.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 21, 2021

Director Edgar Wright's documentary thoroughly recounts the siblings' 50-year career with help from admiring musicians and famous fans.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2021

Disappointing might be a better word for it; one might have hoped that, when time came for Sparks to get their due, the treatment would better reflect the band's singularity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2021

Wright's debut documentary may seem a shift from his long career of modern screwball comedy, but he's almost accidentally perfect, channeling his own obsession with the understatedly quirky band into a pitch-perfect examination.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2021

This film goes the distance with Sparks, spending almost as much time on the obscure later albums as the bestsellers.

| Jun 17, 2021