• Network: FX , HULU
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 24, 2021
Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5

Critic Reviews

  1. Reviewed by: Jen Chaney
    Sep 29, 2021
    80
    Information is presented in a cogent, journalistic fashion that is more interested in uncovering what Britney Spears has been facing away from the shiny filters of her Instagram feed rather than exploiting her.
  2. Reviewed by: Judy Berman
    Sep 29, 2021
    80
    The revelations in this concise, illuminating, polished but stylistically spartan feature are indeed damning.
  3. Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Sep 28, 2021
    80
    Controlling Britney Spears is equal parts shocking and infuriating, a necessary examination of the reality of the pop icon’s conservatorship and why so many have been calling for her freedom for so long.
  4. Reviewed by: Nina Metz
    Sep 29, 2021
    75
    The surveillance allegations are substantial and the film itself is simply more cohesive and better organized [than Netflix's "Britney vs Spears"].
  5. Reviewed by: Kristen Lopez
    Sep 28, 2021
    42
    Much of “Controlling Britney Spears” feels like leftover story angles that there weren’t time for in “Framing Britney Spears.” Clocking in at a little over an hour, “Controlling Britney Spears” lacks the urgency of its predecessor.