Piece By Piece

Name: Piece By Piece
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Comedy, Music
Released: October 11, 2024
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 63

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Focus Features | Release Date: October 11, 2024 | PG

Summary: Piece By Piece is a unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of Pharrell Williams. Told through the lens of LEGO® animation, turn up the volume on your imagination and witness the evolution of one of music's most innovative minds.

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History, Comedy, Music, Animation, Family, Musical

Rating: PG

Runtime: 93 min

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Charlotte Simmons

Oct 15, 2024

Piece by Piece, much like its decorated subject, blows right past refusing to play by the rules and straight up doesn't acknowledge them, and it's all the best for it. Read full review

Siddhant Adlakha

Sep 19, 2024

While its flaws are rooted in what it avoids, its marriage of topic and form yields a blast of positivity in a way that perfectly suits its withholding subject, granting his interviews the kind of depth and creativity embodied by his music. While it avoids all thorny entanglements, it looks good and feels great, like any LEGO movie should. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Oct 10, 2024

Borrowing the look of The Lego Movie, Piece by Piece is as bouncy and playful as a room full of rambunctious toddlers. Read full review

Maureen Lee Lenker

Aug 31, 2024

There are glimmers of insight here, often in the brighter moments (for instance, the sweet story of how Pharrell devised his massive hit, "Happy," and the emotional response triggered by its success). But despite touting an inventive concept, the whole thing remains fairly surface level. Read full review

Donald Clarke

Nov 7, 2024

Many will roll their eyes when Williams is praised for supposedly ground-breaking collaboration with luxury brands. But the real problem with this tolerably diverting film is that he isn’t really that interesting. Read full review

David Fear

Oct 9, 2024

Sometimes all of these little plastic avatars are a needless distraction from what is a compelling origin story by any measure. Other times, the LEGO-ification of it all provides a welcome distraction from some fairly cut-and-dried Music Documentary 101 business, with Piece by Piece putting a formally unique spin on a very familiar, if slightly incomplete arc. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Oct 11, 2024

What’s obvious after a few minutes of Piece by Piece is that the movie isn’t rendered the way it is because of some profound thematic ties between its subject’s life and the plastic construction set, but because the Lego is an attempt to inject something of interest into what is, even by the pre-chewed standards of authorized celeb docs, textureless pablum. Read full review

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