This is a mid-life crisis story wrapped in gauzy metaphysics.

It is the first Pixar film to feature an African-American actor.

As director Alison Ellwood shows in her briskly entertaining documentary, the band's members can explain away, with enormous charm, the naked ambition that made them the most successful "girl group" ever.

If you have ever lived with a family member who is dependent on alcohol or drugs or both, I think she's turned in an award-winning performance.