I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

In the last two decades rock documentaries have become ubiquitous on TV but marginalized as cinema; this is the rare exception that earns its place on the big screen.

It testifies to art's vitality and endurance, despite its marketers' -- and sometimes even its makers' -- efforts to the contrary.

This is a rare gem tripped over while making a run-of-the-mill rockumentary about a band's new album.

Shot in grainy black and white, the film features tons of entertaining footage of the band in the studio as well as an enlightening commentary from music critics Greg Kot and David Frick.

This is compelling stuff, but Jones seems almost pathologically averse to upstaging the songs themselves.

A slightly dull film by photographer Sam Jones.

Jones's documentary, named for the opening song on Foxtrot, is most effective as a poison-pen missive to Corporate Rock.