
In preparation for "In a World Like This" (their eighth album) and their 20th Anniversary Tour (now that Kevin's back), the Backstreet Boys recount their histories, both personal and collective, as they take one another along in revisiting their childhood pasts to re-tighten their brotherly bonds.... (Full plot summary below)
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In preparation for "In a World Like This" (their eighth album) and their 20th Anniversary Tour (now that Kevin's back), the Backstreet Boys recount their histories, both personal and collective, as they take one another along in revisiting their childhood pasts to re-tighten their brotherly bonds.
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| Total FilmEmma MorganBackstreet Boys document their triumphant 20th-anniversary comeback as a manband with a refreshing absence of vanity. |
| Irish TimesTara BradyUnsurprisingly, memory and mortality take centre stage in this informative, emotionally open documentary from Stephen Kijak. |
| ChristyLemire.comChristy LemireShow 'Em What You're Made Of is the title of a song on their new album, but you also get a sense that they feel liberated in finally showing the world what they're made of through this film. |
| amNewYorkRobert LevinLess of a nostalgia trip for millennials than a film infused with the tension of what it's like to know that your best days are probably behind you. |
| Village VoiceAmy NicholsonShow 'Em What You're Made Of convincingly argues that these boy-men have something to say about the fickleness of fate — something they knew more about as young men than any of the cynics who dismissed them for dancing in unison. The hardest part will be convincing people to listen. |
| Contactmusic.comRich ClineLively and personal but never quite breaking the surface, this documentary about the boy band phenomenon traces both their 20-year anniversary project... |
| Los Angeles TimesGerrick D. KennedyEven if Show 'Em What You're Made Of doesn't answer McLean's essential question of what men do after life as a boy band, the carefully crafted film is an engaging look at how they got to here. |
| New York TimesNeil GenzlingerIt is insight-free and cliché-heavy, with the five sharing obvious reminiscences about the thrill of superstardom, visiting haunts from their youth, shooting baskets and occasionally rehearsing. |
| GuardianMichael CraggIts tale of broken friendships, rickety knees, backstabbing managers and independently funded, acoustic-lead latterday albums should act as a warning to any up-and-coming boyband. |
| Times (UK)Wendy IdeThe result is rather more interesting than you might expect. |