New this week: Documentaries on Bieber, Fauci and 'Buried'
ABC News
This week’s new entertainment releases feature music from Grammy-winning songwriter Natalie Hemby and two pop star documentaries — “Justin Bieber: Our World" and the concert film “Madonna: Madame X.”
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
MOVIES
—John Hoffman and Janet Tobias’ “Fauci” is the first big-screen documentary of the nation’s top infectious disease expert and ubiquitous face of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s an intimate portrait of a longtime public servant whose notoriety in the past 18 months has risen dramatically — and with that, brought heaps of far-right scorn on the veteran of seven White House administrations. The Nation Geographic’s film, which premieres this week on Disney+ after a three-week run in theaters, surveys the doctor’s career but focuses particularly on how the AIDS crisis formed him as a public health official.
—It’s a funny quirk that one of the highest grossing documentaries ever belongs to Justin Bieber. “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” made more than $73 million at the box office in 2011, a non-fiction total bested only by “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “March of the Penguins.” A lot has changed in the intervening decade for both Bieber and the movies. “Justin Bieber: Our World,” which debuts Friday on Amazon Prime, tracks some of those changes in the now 27-year-old pop star while focusing on his preparations for his first full concert in three years — a New Year’s Eve 2020 show in Beverly Hills.