The concept was interesting: a documentary about Rock music magazines (and, to a lesser extent, the critics who wrote for them) in their heyday. Unfortunately, it was marred by poor editing, amateur production, sloppy audio, and inconsistent cutaways and effects. The last 3 or 4 minutes of it are difficult to follow, with images popping on and off the screen, conversations edited down to non-sequitur sound bites, and things that seem to have been thrown in because they fit nowhere else. In fact, the last clip is about a musician you probably haven't heard of who saw The Clash and and decided that he wanted to be a musician. Not a Rock critic or anyone associated with Rock music journalism. A musician. And apparently, a Punk musician at that (not that there's anything wrong with Punk). This musician seemed like a nice enough guy, but his story wasn't relevant to the documentary. (Note: I don't consider this a "spoiler" because it wasn't much of an ending.)
Despite billing itself as a doc on "The Golden Age of Rock Music Journalism", almost none of the biggest/most popular/most respected music critics of the time are interviewed, and the British Rock music press gets almost no mention at all. And for some reason, most of the critics in the doc appear to be Punk-Rock fans. (Again, not that there's anything wrong with that.๐) Several minutes of the doc are dedicated to a regionally popular Punk band (you probably haven't heard of) and how a few of these critics loved the band. (And for those who might suggest that the doc's production values are enjoying the same "Punk-Rock" ethos as the music and magazine that the critics seem to enjoy, nice try. Some of the interview clips actually *try* to look nice. But many simply appear to have been recorded by the people who were in them...on their phones.)
If you want to learn about the start of Creem or Crawdaddy magazines, or why almost no one in the "Rock music critic" industry seems to like Rolling Stone or Jann Wenner (which may or may not be warranted), this doc is for you. However, if you want to learn about or revisit the heyday of Rock music mags *in general* and the critics who wrote for them, you'll have to keep searching.