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GAGA: FIVE FOOT TWO
September 22, 2017  | By David Bianculli

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

 

SPECIAL PREMIERE: Premiering today on Netflix, this is a new behind-the-scenes, but fully approved, documentary about Lady Gaga, showing her at home, in the studio, and preparing for her new album – called Joanne, and dedicated to a late relative. The special also is framed around her Super Bowl LI halftime show, beginning and ending with the moments leading to that triumphant appearance. We don’t see a replay of that Super Bowl show here, but we do hear Gaga sing several times (most memorably at a birthday tribute to Tony Bennett), and watch her deal with back spasms, insecurities, loneliness, shooting a music video, and, from relatives, a lot of support and love. It’s nowhere near as narcissistic as Madonna’s Truth or Dare documentary, and is, at times, much more candid.

 
 
 
 
 
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