Anonymous backing band, poor song choices, stuttery gifs as backdrops, witless stage banter — there’s so much bad stuff that the good stuff has to really struggle to come through here, but when it’s working, one can see/hear that Morrissey has still got it when he actually decides to show up. The latter third, marked with a mournful “Life is a Pigsty (and followed only by legit classics, no more recent or unreleased songs), starts to feel like the old…

It's fascinating that even though their famous tagline was "It's not TV, it's HBO," there were times when their series looked like movies, their actual movies looked like TV.

RKO 281 just plain looks cheap, with flat lighting and fresh out of the box costumes. Plus, the canned music straight out of some open-source library. The performances are good, but it's all staged like they are still in rehearsals.

And the script...the movie feels like it's reverse engineered by someone…

This film is at its best when it sticks to its stated thesis: reminding you of how wonderful Natalie Wood was, absent of the tabloid scandal that surrounds her death.

Too bad it abandons that for its final third, focusing on the iconic actress' death and its aftermath. The aftermath. Which is everyone else, not Natalie. As much as I sympathize with the impulse here, and feel so very much for the family, the avoidance of all hard questions, the…