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  • 2024
  • PG
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 33 m
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  • PG
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary Piece By Piece is a unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of Pharrell Williams. Told through the lens of LEGO® animation, turn up the volume on your imagination and witness the evolution of one of music's most innovative minds.

Directed By: Morgan Neville

Written By: Morgan Neville, Jason Zeldes, Aaron Wickenden, Oscar Vazquez

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • PG
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2024
  • PG
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 33 m

Piece By Piece

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
63
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 20 User Ratings
6.2
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Summary Piece By Piece is a unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of Pharrell Williams. Told through the lens of LEGO® animation, turn up the volume on your imagination and witness the evolution of one of music's most innovative minds.

Directed By: Morgan Neville

Written By: Morgan Neville, Jason Zeldes, Aaron Wickenden, Oscar Vazquez

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
63
59% Positive
19 Reviews
41% Mixed
13 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
63
59% Positive
19 Reviews
41% Mixed
13 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Oct 15, 2024
Piece by Piece, much like its decorated subject, blows right past refusing to play by the rules and straight up doesn't acknowledge them, and it's all the best for it.
By Charlotte Simmons FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 10, 2024
It’s perfect popcorn fare: the story of a creative genius against the playfulness of a Lego landscape mixed with a boppy tune.
By Aparita Bhandari FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 9, 2024
Pharrell’s rags-to-riches story is a familiar tale re-energised not just with his unique sound but the basic decision to animate his life so that it can thrive with his imagination and hit so many visual grace notes.
By Radheyan Simonpillai FULL REVIEW
67
Aug 31, 2024
There are glimmers of insight here, often in the brighter moments (for instance, the sweet story of how Pharrell devised his massive hit, "Happy," and the emotional response triggered by its success). But despite touting an inventive concept, the whole thing remains fairly surface level.
By Maureen Lee Lenker FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 6, 2024
Piece By Piece’s very existence is baffling, and the Lego of it all is never entirely justified, but as an unconventional documentary of a maverick musician, it works — just about.
By John Nugent FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 10, 2024
Rather than blazing a new trail for Lego cartoons, this may be the first one to feel like it’s adhering too closely to its instruction booklet.
By Jesse Hassenger FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 11, 2024
What’s obvious after a few minutes of Piece by Piece is that the movie isn’t rendered the way it is because of some profound thematic ties between its subject’s life and the plastic construction set, but because the Lego is an attempt to inject something of interest into what is, even by the pre-chewed standards of authorized celeb docs, textureless pablum.
By Alison Willmore FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 20 User Ratings
6.2
65% Positive
13 Ratings
10% Mixed
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25% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 20 User Ratings
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65% Positive
13 Ratings
10% Mixed
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25% Negative
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7
England8
Oct 12, 2024
Definitely some solid directing to match Pharrell’s unique personality, has some time filler and approaches his life more doc than a dramatized film.
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Planet55
Oct 20, 2024
nice colors & is slightly inspiring but lacks in depth and feels pretentious and shallow a lot of the time with a fair amount of filler.
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Production Company Focus Features, Tremolo Productions, The LEGO Group, Motion Picture Association (MPA), Pure Imagination Studios, Tongal, i am OTHER
Release Date Oct 11, 2024
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating PG
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Tagline Turn up the volume on your imagination.
Website https://www.focusfeatures.com/piece-by-piece
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Awards

Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 2 Nominations
Heartland Film
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)
• 1 Nomination

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