From Joe Williams at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
GRADE: A
"Kurt Cobain: About a Son" is haunted by a teen spirit, the soul of a boy who would grow into a rock legend and die by his own hand at age 27. We never see an image of Cobain until the closing moments of this extraordinary documentary, yet his voice in a series of audio recordings suffuses beautiful images of the place that produced him and inspired his art.
It was a commercial and artistic risk to make a movie about a rock star and never show his face or play his music. But the courage of the director's convictions is the definitive homage to Cobain, a restless ghost who refuses to stay locked in a heart-shape box.
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