Oasis: ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ Arrives in Cinemas — and Divides the Critics

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger has arrived in cinemas and IMAX, offering fans the first full-length account of the band’s Live ’25 reunion — and giving critics plenty to debate.

The documentary follows Oasis from the uneasy first rehearsals of their comeback through a 41-show tour spanning five continents. Stadium performances are mixed with backstage footage, fan stories and the first joint interview with Liam and Noel Gallagher in more than twenty years.

For fans, the biggest attraction is the sheer scale of the return. More than two million people saw Oasis during Live ’25, and the film attempts to capture what those shows felt like from both sides of the stage.

But some of its strongest moments are much smaller.

Rehearsal footage and conversations between the brothers give the story a more personal centre, particularly when set against the hostility that defined the years following Oasis’s split. Noel describing Liam as “delightful” might once have sounded like a joke. Here, it feels more like evidence that something between them really has changed.

That sense of reconciliation sits at the heart of the film.

The critical response, however, has been divided. Some reviewers have praised the concert footage and the documentary’s portrayal of music as a force capable of repairing relationships that once appeared permanently broken.

Others have criticised the film for being too protective of the Oasis story, arguing that it favours celebration and emotional myth-making over harder questions about the brothers, the break-up and the commercial machine behind one of the biggest reunion tours in music history.

There is some truth in both readings.

Don’t Look Back in Anger is an authorised documentary about a triumphant comeback, not an investigation into everything that went wrong before it. Its focus is less on reopening old wounds and more on explaining why Oasis still matter to millions of people — and why the prospect of Liam and Noel sharing a stage again once seemed almost impossible.

Anyone hoping for a forensic examination of every argument, accusation and falling-out may therefore find parts of the film guarded.

For those who want to relive the noise, anticipation and emotion of Live ’25, it offers something very different: a record of one of the most unlikely and culturally significant reunions in recent British music.

The film was created by Steven Knight and directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace. It premiered at the Venice International Film Festival before beginning its worldwide theatrical release.

For now, Don’t Look Back in Anger is a cinema release, including selected IMAX screenings.

Disney is expected to bring the documentary to Disney+ internationally, with Hulu and Disney+ carrying it in the United States. A confirmed streaming release date has not yet been announced.