Critic Reviews

Taylor is an empathetic portrait of an artist in arrested development, who got famous so young that she spent her twenties and early thirties believing in fairytales. But she’s also a shrewd businesswoman with it.

Less attention is paid to Swift’s music and songwriting craft, which is what happens when a female pop star goes stratospheric. Analysis turns, as it inevitably does in Taylor, to her capacity for reinvention, steely backbone and ability to manipulate her own image.