Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck

We see-almost from the inside-the evolution of Cobain's sensitive brilliance and the art and destruction that it fed.

Morgen and his editors have simply done a remarkable job -- also an artful one -- in piecing together this residuum.

On the subject of the life and death of Kurt Cobain there is still some work to be done, but Montage of Heck may be as close as we'll get to moving on.

A masterful and often deeply moving portrait of a volatile American genius, a portrait that goes far beyond one man, one family and one rain-sodden small town.

Cobain's life has been chronicled in scores of books and documentaries, but Montage of Heck feels fresh in the scope of material it includes, the way it's presented, and the things it emphasizes.

Montage understands Cobain as an icon, but also as the mixed-up kid who got too famous too fast, and it seems content revealing, rather than reconciling, his contradictions.

It's a rare profile that's about the person instead of the personality, the artist instead of the art.

Montage of Heck isn't an investigation into its subject's death so much as an homage to his creativity and life force -- it's tender and sad.

Montage of Heck makes the tragic end of Cobain's life more heartbreaking through it's delicate retelling of his 27 years.

Montage of Heck is about the representation and self-representation of Kurt Cobain, a fascinating process for any figure whose entire fame was based on modes of self-representation.

Morgen's movie is an eye-level, straight-on gaze at the soul that would turn rock music on its head when it was so desperately needed.

Montage of Heck is an insightful, moving mosaic that works to immerse you, for better or worse, inside Kurt Cobain's creative process and personal demons.