Parents' Guide to Post Malone: Runaway

Movie NR 2022 65 minutes
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Jennifer Green By Jennifer Green , based on child development research. How do we rate?

age 15+

Language, heavy drinking in unrevealing concert docu.

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What's the Story?

POST MALONE: RUNAWAY follows the artist and his crew on a 37-date tour across North America in 2019, just before COVID shut concerts down. The film has some interviews with the musician and his entourage, but mostly follows them around backstage and edits together scenes from the tour.

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This concert documentary has very little story; come for the music, but don't expect any new insights into what makes this artist tick -- or even basic biographical details. What you do get in Post Malone: Runaway is backstage access, where it appears there's a whole lot of music-making and beer-drinking going on. It's disappointing if you're interested in the person behind the music because a documentary like this offers a celebrity the chance to tell his own story. The fact that he doesn't sends the message that he wants us to only think about his music, in which case, was a movie necessary? In some scenes, he and his entourage push the camera away and he complains he doesn't have privacy. Did the artist even want this movie made? Expect some platitudes about how important music is to the face-tattooed artist, sycophantic comments from handlers, and concert scenes spliced together by song.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about what they learn about the artist at the heart of Post Malone: Runaway.

  • How does this documentary differ from other music documentaries you've seen?

  • What would you have liked to know about the musician that wasn't revealed in this film?

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