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Alone Together

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United States, United Kingdom · 2021
1h 10m
Director Pablo Jones-Soler
Starring Charli XCX, Huck Kwong
Genre Documentary, Music

Charli XCX was riding high after her global tour in 2019, but everything changed with the COVID-19 pandemic. Lost in the early days of quarantine, she decided to make an album at home in 40 days by enlisting the help of her fans, touching on themes of mental health and personal connection along the way.

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75

Consequence by

Highlighting the reciprocal nature that many musicians share with their fans in unprecedented fashion, the film’s raw and authentic approach is as engaging as Charli herself.

70

The Hollywood Reporter by Dan Fienberg

At only 67 minutes, Bradley&Pablo's doc is aspiring much more to the former. Less brevity and more depth could possibly have yielded a superior movie, but Alone Together may be an example of a documentary better served by leaving fans wanting more than making casually curious viewers want less.

83

IndieWire by David Ehrlich

The directors do a brilliant job of making its ad-hoc, mixed-media aesthetic into more of a feature than a bug. Glitched together from dozens of Charli’s boom-tastic PC Music bangers and punctuated with computer-generated animation (impish avatars and the like), the film nails the semi-digital existence that we all have come to understand as its own kind of reality.

50

The Film Stage by John Fink

Alone Together has something rather profound to say, it’s just a shame that it never does so in a truly coherent way.

75

The Playlist by Roxana Hadadi

As much as Charli is the star of this documentary, her fans are, too, and Alone Together manifests as both a wild ride and a soothing balm—as long as you don’t think too hard about the labor ethics at the center of it.

63

TheWrap by Steve Pond

While you can view the film as a companion piece to “How I’m Feeling Now” that is mostly aimed at people who love that album, it also has moments where it transcends that to become is an intimate examination of community in a time of isolation. And in those moments, the film has an impact that reaches far beyond what it shows you about one artist’s music.

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