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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80CNNBrian LowryCNNBrian LowryEven in a boom time for musical profiles, this HBO presentation shines brighter than most.
- 70Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonWall Street JournalJohn AndersonIn addition to the disco rhythms, glitzy fashions and alarming hairstyles, Love to Love You, Donna Summer might strike a nostalgic nerve with how natural, funny and forthcoming its subject is.
- 70Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayWilliams and Sudano don’t try to sell their audience on Summer as a musician, because the music itself still does that. This is more a portrait of a passionate artist who kept pushing herself and reinventing herself — sometimes at the expense of those who loved her, at home and on the radio.
- 63RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonRogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonThe strength of the film is its heart, and Summer’s relationships are used not only narratively, but structurally. With frequent narration from Summer’s daughters, and a heavy focus on their childhoods with a loving but distant mother, their desire to understand her beyond her parenthood and into her personhood is the the movie’s foundation.
- 60VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanThe interviews are illuminating; Summer’s family members speak of her with complicated reverence, and with an appreciation for the currents of despair that she nurtured in private.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe doc is stuffed with great archive material. But it largely squanders an ideal platform through which to reaffirm the subject’s vital place in pop music history and reclaim disco as a genre whose influence has never waned.