Boy George & Culture Club

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1:47

2025

1h 36m

Biography

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LGBTQ+

Music

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12 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

David Rooney

The Hollywood Reporter

06/10/2025

Ellwood gives Culture Club and its colorful frontman an affectionate salute that should please fans, even if, unlike the director’s more forthright 2020 Showtime doc, The Go-Gos, she generally chooses diplomacy over a deep dive.

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Matthew Creith

TheWrap

06/06/2025

Ellwood’s use of 1980s fonts and graphics overlaid on famous lyrics come across more like an episode of VH1’s “Behind the Music” rather than a fleshed-out documentary worth exploring.

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Carla Renata

The Curvy Film Critic

Jul 6

Boy George and the Culture Club is a perfect example of how fleeting success can ruin friendships and destroy careers. In other words, karma is a bitch...literally. Loved it!

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Michael Talbot-Haynes

Film Threat

Jul 1

9/10

While much of the band’s history has been covered by unauthorized docs, Boy George & Culture Club is the one rock doc that provides reports from the band members as to what their experience in the pop trenches was like.

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Kent Turner

Film-Forward.com

06/29/2025

3/4

The gift that fans of music publications like Melody Maker and NME would have clamored for 45 years ago, when the band was at the peak of its popularity.

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Stephen Silver

Living Life Fearless

06/20/2025

Being coy about sexuality, and trolling everyone who asked about it, was a key part of what the band was up to back in the day―and also, that they were having the time of their life with it.

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Alison Ellwood

Director

Boy George

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Jon Moss

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Mikey Craig

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Roy Hay

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Trevor Birney

Producer

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Director: Alison Ellwood
Producer: Trevor Birney, Andrew Tully, Ben Silverman, Howard Owens, Natalia Nastaskin, Lawrence Mestel, David Blackman
Distributor: Vantage Media
Production Co: Propagate
Genre: Biography, Documentary, LGBTQ+, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 9, 2026
Runtime: 1h 36m

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