Pavements

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Loretta Jun 13, 2025 This was the perfect Pavement documentary. The humor, the peek backstage, the archival footage, the rehearsals, the musical, and Joe Keery as Stephen Malkmus was brilliant casting. See more

AgeofAdhz Jun 13, 2025 As an OG Pavement fan, I thoroughly enjoyed this film but honestly could have done without so much of the “Range Life” mix film footage and just more Pavement footage. But overall, it was a fitting, lovely ode to one of the best bands of the 90s. See more

Wayne M @Wayne93 Dec 2, 2025 Pavements is the documentary you might have been asking for about the greatest band that ever existed. That band is Pavement. OK, I can't prove they are the greatest band ever, but I will believe it until a better band comes along. Pavement were my 90s and I was lucky to see them live back then as well as again in 2010 and 2022 on their reunion tours. This documentary is not straight forward as you might expect and probably hope for. It's very meta and very strange, but also completely compelling and wonderful. Director Alex Ross Perry follows Pavement on their 2022 tour, tracking rehearsals and live shows. We see the band coming together again. This is interspersed with older footage from their career, so you do get a sense of their history. But in amongst all that we see snippets from the Pavement exhibition in New York in 2022 and also the musical about the band in the same year. But where it gets strange and kind of wonderful is the making of the fictional film 'Range Life', that 'stars' Joe Keery and Jason Schwartzman. It's very strange and absurd, but I loved it. We see what makes Pavement so great, but also that they were willing to send themselves up. I never expected a Pavement documentary to play by the rules and I'm truly glad that this one never did. See more

Harrison B @clinthoward Nov 19, 2025 Way better than the boring documentary about their drummer. Silly ideas make what should've been another boring band documentary pretty good. Also? Reminded me that Pavement has some good songs. See more

S K @SDK9001 Aug 26, 2025 I’ve been a fan since my buddy Pete gave me Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain for my birthday in 1995. And I got a chance to see them in Toronto during their 2010 reunion tour. And I continue to listen to them on the regular. With that background, I can say that this film is for hardcore fans only. It’s an “art for art’s sake” type of thing. Difficult, disjointed, ambitious. But not particularly enjoyable. See more

Tom F @RT55173143 Aug 15, 2025 On paper I should have been a fan of Pavement in their heyday, but they never really resonated with me then or during their unexpected recent revival. But they are a fascinating documentary subject. In a reverse Spinal Tap, the documentary features both a biopic and jukebox musical, simultaneously fake and real, of a band that is both actual but also maybe exists only in a dream. See more

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