| HBO | Release Date (Streaming): May 20, 2023 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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4
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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May 23, 2023
Williams and Sudano don’t try to sell their audience on Summer as a musician, because the music itself still does that. This is more a portrait of a passionate artist who kept pushing herself and reinventing herself — sometimes at the expense of those who loved her, at home and on the radio.
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RogerEbert.comMay 19, 2023
The strength of the film is its heart, and Summer’s relationships are used not only narratively, but structurally. With frequent narration from Summer’s daughters, and a heavy focus on their childhoods with a loving but distant mother, their desire to understand her beyond her parenthood and into her personhood is the the movie’s foundation.
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