Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ Is as Exhilarating on Screen as in the Flesh: Film Review

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “When will Taylor Swift’s film career take off?” has been a question lurking in the back of a lot of people’s minds ever since she started getting her feet wet with bit parts in “The Giver” and “Valentine’s Day”… and then further limited herself to keeping her toes damp with “Cats” and “Amsterdam” cameos.

But do we finally have an answer to that question now, or what? Nobody should suppose that “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” doesn’t count as establishing her as a movie star, just because it’s a straightforward rendering of an ongoing concert tour that’s soon to become the most successful in history.

It’s 2 hours and 45 minutes of nearly nonstop acting, writ large for the back row of SoFi Stadium and, now, Imax and Dolby. What she might do with lengthy dialogue passages someday remains to be seen, but she’s already passing a $100 million screen test.

You could say that all that expressiveness recalls the great sirens of the silent era. But silence is not considered to be golden in “The Eras Tour,” a film designed to be played loud enough that it could almost literally rock “PAW Patrol” and “Exorcist” sequels off neighboring screens. (The power of “Karma” compels you, and all that.) Powering all that volume here is an album-by-album celebration of pop music’s best unbroken 10-album run since the Beatles went 12-for-12 in a very different era.