This is at its best when Morgen puts the viewer in Cobain's shoes. The second half of this documentary is excellent, there's very little handholding and I love how impressionistic/experimental it gets at points. It's so interesting to see the contrast between the biggest rockstar in the world who just released Nevermind and the shitty, depressing apartment he lived in. It certainly doesn't hold back either, you'll get to see his problematic side during that time. The home videos with Courtney, heroin use and death threats made to a music journalist are tough to watch. The presentation is fantastic; I loved the use of atmospheric animation, journal entries, magazine entries and Nirvana songs throughout the film (little odd to leave out his suicide note, however). You can tell they put a lot of thought into the visuals, even the footage recorded with 80s home recorders looks surprisingly polished. I wasn't as much into the first half, mostly because it's not as focussed on Kurt's perspective and therefore less interesting. I honestly could've done without most of the interviews, some of that stuff feels too sanitized. The picture that's painted of Nirvana's come-up in the music industry can come across as a little generic, it's the type of story we've seen in so many rock biopics. You need some of that in order to understand Kurt's character, but much like Nirvana's career, it only really gets going once Nevermind is released.

7/10