Featuring some fabulous footage from the band’s early years, as well as new interviews with all the band members, this offers up plenty of revelations as it unfurls the tale of a sometimes brilliant, but clearly troubled young man.

| Jan 1, 2025

For boomers “The Stones and Brian Jones” is a heady trip down Memory Lane. Broomfield has assembled a treasure trove of vintage footage of the Stones.

| Original Score: B | Jun 7, 2024

The Stones and Brian Jones is certainly a thorough and professionally done bio-doc and Broomfield’s affection for the subject matter is obvious. My main complaint is it doesn’t go far enough in explaining Jones’ musical and cultural importance...

| Jan 22, 2024

Broomfield creates a poignant autobiography of the musician and a competent history of the early days of the band, but the film doesn’t answer claims that even it brings up.

| Dec 6, 2023

The film is worth a Stones die-hard’s time for the early concert footage and for the participation of a pleasantly doddering Bill Wyman...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2023

What's really cool about this documentary is their interviews with Bill Wyman and other musicians about Jones' creative contributions to the group, and I didn't really know about that before.

| Nov 29, 2023

The film doesn’t entirely make the intended case for Jones as some sort of neglected tragic genius. But the mix of vintage concert footage, interviews both new and archival, and other material is inevitably absorbing.

| Nov 27, 2023

Broomfield ... reveals how Jones was the group’s founder and leader, and how his love of the blues and his musical versatility and skill in many ways defined the Stones’ direction – at least in the beginning.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 24, 2023

What the filmmaker really has to offer here is a thesis: he thinks Jones’ rise and fall were essentially determined by his relationship with his parents.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2023

An intimate glimpse into the troubled mind of a musician and a broader exploration of the perils of celebrity, the film is insightful and moving.

| Nov 17, 2023

As a straightforward biography of troubled rock star Brian Jones, it works. It won’t tell die hard Stones fans too much they don’t already know, but Broomfield shows proper reverence and criticism to a complicated figure...

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 17, 2023

The Stones & Brian Jones ... is filled with plenty of implications but not much by the way of a perspective or substance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 17, 2023

The editing doesn’t bring this material to life. Even though the Stones have lots of energy, Jagger especially, that doesn’t translate.

| Nov 16, 2023

This intriguing and surprisingly moving documentary offers new insight into the man, the band, and the era.

| Original Score: A | Nov 16, 2023

The tender twist to this film is that some of his exes — who included Anita Pallenberg and Zouzou, the French actress — help narrate much of his drug-aided decline, most with fondness.

| Nov 16, 2023

It is the focus on Jones as a brilliant musician and not simply another rock ‘n’ roll casualty, that elevates The Stones and Brian Jones. The story has its sordid moments, but director Nick Bloomfield emphasizes the very heart of Jones’s being, the music.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2023

Engrossing and well-edited.

| Nov 16, 2023

Via the film’s juxtaposition between footage of Jones performing in front of fawning crowds with the dark personal stories of those who knew him best, Nick Broomfield bitingly undercuts the rock star’s veneer of public adoration.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2023

What struck me, by the end, is how powerfully sad his story was.

| Nov 10, 2023

A brilliant exploration of the tortured soul of the founder of the Rolling Stones.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 7, 2023