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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary Better Than Something is a feature documentary about the controversial and prolific rock musician Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr, better known as Jay Reatard. This intimate portrait, captured just months before his untimely passing, brings us incredibly close to Jay's complicated punk-rock world in Memphis, Tennessee. (IFC Films)

Directed By: Alex Hammond, Ian Markiewicz

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 29 m

Better Than Something: Jay Reatard

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
65
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Summary Better Than Something is a feature documentary about the controversial and prolific rock musician Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr, better known as Jay Reatard. This intimate portrait, captured just months before his untimely passing, brings us incredibly close to Jay's complicated punk-rock world in Memphis, Tennessee. (IFC Films)

Directed By: Alex Hammond, Ian Markiewicz

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83
Feb 29, 2012
Better Than Something doesn't really try to resolve the mystery of how someone could be simultaneously so productive and destructive.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 28, 2012
Even non-fans will appreciate what a tough act Reatard is to follow, though, and anybody with a shred of respect left for rock 'n' roll will feel loss and anger at his passing.
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70
Feb 28, 2012
What elevates the picture above the norm is a series of remarkably candid and eerily prescient interviews.
By Eddie Cockrell FULL REVIEW
63
Feb 27, 2012
Intimacy doesn't completely give rise to insight in this loving, if largely for-fans-only, posthumous portrait of Memphis-bred punk rocker Jay Reatard.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 1, 2012
The result is a frustratingly superficial look at a smart, driven and sometimes frightened young man who always felt as though he were "racing against time."
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Mar 2, 2012
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.facebook.com/betterthansomething
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