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Music, Documentary, History 117 min R
Rotten Tomatoes84%Metacritic71IMDb
The incredible true story of the band that defined an era.
Supersonic charts the meteoric rise of Oasis from the council estates of Manchester to some of the biggest concerts of all time in just three short years. This palpable, raw and moving film shines a light on one of the most genre and generation-defining British bands that has ever existed and features candid new interviews with Noel and Liam Gallagher, their mother, and members of the band and road crew.
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Nostalgic, relentless, effortless and epic.
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You see so many of these musical biopics that are clearly just manufactured by record companies and/or the acts to create some publicity and squeeze an extra bit of juice from their back catalogues. That cannot be said of this way more visceral film that takes us from the origins of “Oasis” as two brothers and their pals rehearing relentlessly in a basement through to global stardom. Neither Noel nor Liam Gallagher pull their punches as their evaluations of not just their own turbulent relationship, but of a grasping and manipulative industry and of the hilarious degree of hypocrisy that prevailed as these struggled to attain success before struggling even more with it’s consequences, play out. The band, their manager Alan McGee alongside their dedicated and long-suffering team and the press at the time offer us as honest an appraisal as you’ll ever see - and these brothers appear unconcerned that at times they come across as obnoxious, drug-infused, prats. Indeed, it’s that very honesty that, augmented by an astonishing selection of archive with some really decent audio, gives this whole thing an authenticity that makes it a compelling watch. Musically, it serves as a reminder of
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