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- 2023
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 32 m
- 2023
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 32 m
Summary Through archival interviews and footage, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley relive the arc of their Wham. career, from 70s best buds to 80s pop icons.
Directed By: Chris Smith
- 2023
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 32 m
- 2023
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 1 h 32 m
Wham!
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Summary Through archival interviews and footage, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley relive the arc of their Wham. career, from 70s best buds to 80s pop icons.
Directed By: Chris Smith
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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81% Positive
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19% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Whether a viewer might be a fan of Wham! or not is ultimately irrelevant, as Chris Smith has produced something as incendiary as any of Wham!’s hits.
Even as there are some moments where it can fall into feeling like a greatest hits recap of the group that dances along the surface of the story, the more complicated reflections it offers on their lives and music cuts quite a bit deeper when it counts.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
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75% Positive
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What emerges is the story of an extremely close and profoundly charming boyhood friendship – but one where the junior partner couldn’t, or wouldn’t, put the genie of his extraordinary talent back in the bottle once his pal had coaxed it out of him.
Nothing here’s overthought or pumped up. To invoke the words of a different beacon of catchiness, “Wham!” is a teenage dream. You could drink it from a coconut.
Smith has made a film that’s not unlike Wham!’s hits — bouncy, light and frothy, nothing that demands anything of the viewer and listener other than a smile.
It’s an enjoyable spectacle, and a madeleine for the 1980s: but there was something more to say about friendship, sexuality and the music itself.
Director Chris Smith builds the film around Ridgeley’s mother’s scrapbooks of photographs and memorabilia – and perhaps partly because of that, it ends up feeling like little more than a leaf through the milestones. It’s been made for the fans, but they’ll know every last detail already: it’s pop history as singalong.
Production Company
Ventureland
Release Date Jul 5, 2023
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating TV-14
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Awards
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Nomination
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination
