One Direction: This Is Us

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One Direction: This Is Us

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Released Aug 30, 2013

1h 35m

Documentary

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Groomed for stardom by "X-Factor's" Simon Cowell, the members of pop supergroup One Direction -- Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne -- have emerged as a worldwide phenomenon. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock follows the young singers on their 2012-2013 world tour and mixes live concert footage with behind-the-scenes interviews and antics. Soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, actor-comic Chris Rock and filmmaker Martin Scorsese also drop by to meet the guys.

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Critics Consensus

It's mostly for the converted, but One Direction: This Is Us will be fun for fans -- and it offers just enough slickly edited concert footage to entertain the casual viewer.

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

metro.co.uk

It smells less like teen spirit than money, yet it bottles the carefree zest of pure pop so irresistably even non-Directioners will find themselves happily bip-bip-bopping along.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 5, 2017

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Christy Lemire

RogerEbert.com

This Is Us does what it needs to do for its target audience. But anyone looking for actual substance or insight will be disappointed and maybe even a little bored with its repetitive nature.

Rated: 2/4

Aug 31, 2013

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

[It] amounts to little more than a big, wet kiss to the group's worldwide legions of young, female fans

Rated: 2.5/5

Aug 30, 2013

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

If your teen or 'tween is a fan you can certainly go far more wrong than taking them to this light yet reasonably entertaining band.

Rated: 2.5/4.0

Sep 18, 2020

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Brandy McDonnell

The Oklahoman

"This Is Us" is packed with nonstop energy and cheeky good fun, courtesy of its likable young leads.

Aug 7, 2018

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Leah Sydney

Showbiz 411

The film is just plain fun to watch and the music is poppy and quite lovely at times.

Jun 22, 2018

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Michael M

Boring and depressing

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/01/25

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Daniel B

Seas o no fan de One Direcion no se puede negar el impacto mediático de esta banda. Un recorrido aunque un poco más veloz del que me gustaría muy satisfactorio; el ascenso de chicos ingleses normales a un estrellato colosal. Acompañado de muy buenas canciones de la banda. El que hay detrás de cada show y ver el lado humano de cada uno; un lado humano que muchas veces olvidamos que los artistas de este nivel tienen. Es reconfortante ver cada aspecto de tanto su vida mediática como su vida personal. Lo estresante que puede llegar a ser un tour global y la tranquilidad de regresar al lugar donde todo comenzó. Si eres fan de 1D te lo vas a pasar fenomenal, y si no te va a entretener, con historias y curiosidades de cada lugar que visitan, el que hacían antes de cada concierto y el gran impacto que llegaron a tener, hay un momento con Martin Scorsese que fue lo que más disfrute. A mi en lo personal soy más fan de las canciones que vinieron después de esta película y aún más del increíble momento que está viviendo como solista Harry Styles y en las asombrosas películas que a salido, es asombroso ver como empezó todo y aunque pueda parecer opaco por su separación actual, como dijo Niall Horan "Espero que recuerden a 1D como chicos que se la pasaban increíble en el escenario".

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

07/23/22

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/28/23

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Audience Member

It's a bio film about One Direction's lives at home and on the road. I love them so much. I hope they make another film one day.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Audience Member

Esta bastante fresca la pelicula

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Audience Member

Loved this movie, wish I could see what youtube videos of 1D can capture though.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Synopsis

Groomed for stardom by "X-Factor's" Simon Cowell, the members of pop supergroup One Direction -- Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne -- have emerged as a worldwide phenomenon. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock follows the young singers on their 2012-2013 world tour and mixes live concert footage with behind-the-scenes interviews and antics. Soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, actor-comic Chris Rock and filmmaker Martin Scorsese also drop by to meet the guys.

Director: Morgan Spurlock
Producer: Simon Cowell, Adam Milano, Morgan Spurlock, Ben Winston
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Syco Entertainment, Modest! Management
Rating: PG (Mild Language)
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 30, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 13, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $28.9M
Runtime: 1h 35m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, Datasat, SDDS

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