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Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All. Part 1. HBO documentaire.

The documentary is exhaustive, but what else can be expected from a film that takes “All Or Nothing At All” as its namesake? Framing the film within the retirement concert’s set list is a canny move, but it also invites a bit of clock-watching. The minutes between song titles pile up during the scenes from Sinatra’s early life, and the doc’s attempt to capture 56 years in four hours seems to get the better of it. Part two, meanwhile, would have benefited from stronger prioritization. There’s a brave refusal to shy away from the musician’s ties to gangsters and politicans, and Mia Farrow gets to tell the story of her romance with Sinatra practically uninterrupted, but the tone takes a strange shift during a lengthy interlude about Frank Sinatra Jr.’s kidnapping. For a too-long period, the definitive documentary portrait of Frank Sinatra turns into an Investigation Discovery true-crime special, complete with dramatic reenactment. But the heft of the doc is more often than not justified by the stature of its subject and the scale of the stories surrounding him.

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