Ten years in the making, Strange Powers is an intimate documentary portrait of songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields. With his unique gift for memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings that blend classic Tin Pan Alley with modern sounds, Stephin Merritt has distinguished himself as one of contemporary pop's most beloved and influential artists.
Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields has generally received positive reviews.
Review of Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields (2011)
By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 12 Nov 2010
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Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields was released in 2011 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 14 reviews, giving Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields (2011) an average rating of 69%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 77%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 73%.
With a score of 69%, Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2011, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2011 with similar scores include films like Rio, Captain America: The First Avenger and Courageous.
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