
Miss Sharon Jones: Dreams never expire but sometimes they are deferred. Miss Sharon Jones follows the talented and gregarious soul singer of the Grammy nominated R&B band "Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings." In the most challenging year of her life, Sharon Jones confronts pancreatic cancer. As she struggles to find her health and voice again, the film intimately uncovers the mind and spirit of a powerful woman determined to regain the explosive singing career that eluded her for... (Full plot summary below)
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Miss Sharon Jones: Dreams never expire but sometimes they are deferred. Miss Sharon Jones follows the talented and gregarious soul singer of the Grammy nominated R&B band "Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings." In the most challenging year of her life, Sharon Jones confronts pancreatic cancer. As she struggles to find her health and voice again, the film intimately uncovers the mind and spirit of a powerful woman determined to regain the explosive singing career that eluded her for 50 years.
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| The GateAndrew ParkerMiss Sharon Jones! is an assured look at a woman viewers and listeners alike can still expect great things from. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt FagerholmIf the film is a touch more emotionally muted than one would expect, that is because Jones spends the vast majority of the film holding it together. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrThe strength of Kopple’s film (as opposed to the strength of Sharon Jones, which is mighty) is that it honestly depicts the vulnerabilities of an indomitable woman. |
| Brooklyn MagazineScout TafoyaKopple spends a few minutes at a time on any given subject before changing focus. If she'd kept the camera trained on Jones, the payoff would have been titanic. |
| indieWireKate ErblandClearly a dynamo in both her life and work, observing the juxtaposition between pre-cancer Jones (the film is filled with excellent performance footage of her over the years) and the still-mending Sharon is profound; Kopple resists making cheap comparisons between the two, instead opting to let the footage speak for itself. |
| Georgia StraightKen EisnerThroughout, Jones displays exemplary courage and patience, using her downtime to dabble in paint-by-numbers art projects. Given the rare intimacy the filmmaker was allowed, it's a shame that Kopple took the same approach. |
| NewcityRay PrideA tingle of what a fine and fierce figure could have been onscreen. Still, [Jones'] energy is a rebuke to the easily defeated. |
| National PostChris KnightKopple's cameras don't always capture Jones at her most cuddly, but her perseverance and energy, even during the worst of her illness, jump off the screen. |
| Toronto StarLinda BarnardInitially dismissed by a record exec as "too black, too short, too old," to succeed, dynamic R&B powerhouse Sharon Jones wasn't about to let that, or anything else, stop her. |
| NOW TorontoNorman WilnerBarbara Kopple made a movie about Sharon Jones at the worst possible time -- and got the best possible result. |