To the End (2024 film)

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To the End
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Film poster
Directed byToby L.
Produced byJosh Connolly
Starring Blur
CinematographySebastian Cort
Rhys Warren
Edited byDanny Abel
Music byBlur
Mike Smith
Production
company
Up the Game
Release dates
  • June 14, 2024 (2024-06-14)(Sheffield DocFest)
  • July 19, 2024 (2024-07-19)(United Kingdom)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

To the End is a 2024 British documentary film about the rock band Blur's reunion in the 2020s and their first album in eight years, The Ballad of Darren . The film is directed by Toby L. It premiered at Sheffield DocFest on 14 June 2024. [1] It was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 19 July 2024. [2] [3] [4]

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It is the fourth documentary film about the band after Starshaped (1993), No Distance Left to Run (2010), and New World Towers (2015).

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 100% of 10 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.3/10. [5] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 72 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [6]

Andrew Trendell of NME gave the film five out of five stars and wrote, "While Blur's last doc and accompanying live movie No Distance Left To Run was a portrait of a band celebrating their legacy and giving a nostalgia-hungry world exactly what they craved, this spiritual sequel shows a band simply supporting each other. Whether they return again or not remains to be seen. But even if they don't, this was one hell of a final fling." [7]

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References

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