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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Hamish MacBain

Women Who Rock on Sky review: scattershot documentary feels like a missed opportunity

In a month in which the Brits’ first ever gender neutral category heralded zero female nominees, a documentary tracing the importance of women in the history of music should feel timely and vital. This, sadly, does not.

Despite a total running time of four hours, Women Who Rock feels less like a doc and more like being up late at one of those house parties where no song is allowed to play out in full because everyone present is overexcited and people keep skipping on to the tune that has just popped into their head.

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