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Hamish MacBain

Nothing Compares on Sky review: it has become a eulogy to the great Sinéad O’Connor, and a fitting one

Earlier this month, it was announced that Kathryn Ferguson’s film Nothing Compares, acclaimed on its January 2022 release in cinemas, was to be shown on television for the first time this Saturday.

The clear aim of this documentary is to re-cast Sinead O’Connor as a criminally under-regarded trailblazer to whom the current generation owe more than they know. Late on, Ferguson flashes to Pussy Riot being dragged offstage, MIA raising her middle finger and Billie Eilish lambasting the concept of body shaming.

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