Review: 'Gaga: Five Foot Two' (2017)

Gaga: Five Foot Two reminds me a lot of another music documentary featuring a power girl (or I guess, more specifically, a riot grrrl): The Punk Singer, the 2013 film about feminist rocker Kathleen Hanna. Both films take an interesting angle. Instead of liberally leveraging concert footage or interviewing family and friends, the film's focus on their leading lady's illness: Hanna's Lyme disease and, in the case of Gaga: Five Foot Two, we get a glimpse at the crippling effects of fibromyalgia, an...