After Nick Broomfield's somewhat mitigated documentary comes Kevin Mac Donald's attempt at deciphering the legend that was Whitney Houston.
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The masterful editing plunges us back into the late eighties & early nineties and makes skin-tingedly tangible the meteoric rise of young Whitney as well as her tragic fall.
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Beautiful insights from her family and close ones abound and the director doesn't shy away from honestly interviewing Bobby Brown either.
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Just like Asif Kapadia's Amy a few years back, it's a really tender and beautiful hommage to a complex soul and a beautiful voice.
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Also, a timely watch in a year where too many souls young and old, in or out of the public eye, have lost their lives to substance abuse.