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Metascore®67 out of 100 | Generally favorable reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    [An] extraordinary documentary, nothing at all like what I was expecting to see. Here is not a sick and drugged man forcing himself through grueling rehearsals, but a spirit embodied by music. Michael Jackson was something else. Read full review

  • 90
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    A spectacular record of rehearsals for a show that wasn't to be. Read full review

  • 90
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    What this strange yet strangely beguiling film does is capture one of pop culture's great entertainers in the feverish grips of pure creativity. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Ann Powers

    Differing greatly from the rough, casual mood of many behind-the-scenes pop docs, this one is instead of a piece with Jackson's body of work: dazzling and strange, blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Andrew Barker

    There’s an incredible amount to enjoy here, and the star’s fans will be in rapture. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    This Is It offers a raw and endearing sketch of a genius at work. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Elysa Gardner

    If This Is It doesn't miraculously restore the middle-aged Jackson to his past glory, it at least offers glimpses of his bygone greatness, and poignant suggestions of what might have been. Read full review

  • 70
    Time | Richard Corliss

    It proves that, at the end, he was still a thriller. Fans and doubters alike can look at the gentle, driven singer-dancer at the center of this up-close document and say admiringly, This was him. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    The on-screen results are weird and watchable, by turns frustrating and entertaining, and predictably a little morbid. Read full review

  • 58
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan Rabin

    At best, it angrily demands to be rechristened This Is It! Too often, however, an incredulous This Is It? seems more apt. Read full review