This Is It

"There’s an incredible amount to enjoy here, and the star’s fans will be in rapture."

"The on-screen results are weird and watchable, by turns frustrating and entertaining, and predictably a little morbid."

"[An] extraordinary documentary, nothing at all like what I was expecting to see. Here is not a sick and drugged man forcing himself through grueling rehearsals, but a spirit embodied by music. Michael Jackson was something else."

"But this isn't a concert film. It's a rehearsal film - and one that will leave Jackson's most zealous fans waiting for goose bumps that never arrive."

"He was only practising, but this is Jacko's triumphant last stand."

"Differing greatly from the rough, casual mood of many behind-the-scenes pop docs, this one is instead of a piece with Jackson's body of work: dazzling and strange, blurring the line between fantasy and reality."

"What this strange yet strangely beguiling film does is capture one of pop culture's great entertainers in the feverish grips of pure creativity."

"This Is It delivers neither the full-on Jackson stage experience or a revealing portrait of his complex mindset. Yet it does not dishonour his memory and you can’t deny the power of the music."

"This is It will go down as one of the most blatant money-making ventures I have ever seen."