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| Liam and Noel Gallagher embrace during a performance |
I review the 2026 documentary OASIS: DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER, made by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace. This is an excellent example of a music documentary because it's not just a rehash of a concert. It tells a story about the musicians and the tour's impact on the fans.
Oasis came together in 2025 to tour after a hiatus of 16 years. In 2009, the Brothers Gallagher argued and vowed to never speak again. They broke that vow to put on an unforgettable tour. Without a big intervention or tearful apologies, the reconciliation happened on stage through the music. Here is the review, both on video and podcast, plus a transcript.
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Release information: Coming to Disney Plus and Hulu on October 9, 2026.
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| Liam Gallagher makes putting a tambourine on your head look cool |
Transcript of video:
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Hello everyone, I'm Lindsey Dunn here for 1 of my Stories, a podcast about the stories shaping me. The movie I want to talk about today is Oasis: Don't Look Back at Anger. This is directed by Dylan Southern and Will Loveless. Now to be honest with you, I'm not really much for band documentaries. A lot of times band documentaries spend a lot of time showing parts of a concert.
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and there might be somebody talking on top of what's happening, providing commentary, or they'll show part of a song or show a shocking moment or memorable moment. But I'm always kind of like, what happened before that? Or what happened after that? And it can be frustrating when whoever's picking the editing gets to choose what parts that they're going to show you. Sometimes the way that a music documentary, a band documentary is filmed,
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I don't get that interested because I would much rather just pull up an album and listen to or pull up a music video and watch it for myself. And then maybe I would look up some commentary on what happened that fateful day. But often documentaries about bands kind of leave me flat. But this was a rare lovely exception. Now, I kind of consider myself a 90s kid. Even though I grew up in the 80s, I was in high school in the 90s.
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and in college in the 90s. so those for me were my most memorable years being young. And of course, Oasis was huge in the 90s. I wasn't a big Oasis fan. I didn't have a lot of albums at my house that I listened to. But Oasis was a pretty important band for most people just because of big songs like Wonderwall, Don't Look Back in Anger.
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They were memorable songs. And also I spent six months in the UK and of course Oasis is huge there. I was doing a summer internship. I did a study abroad. And one of the friends that was in study abroad with me is still today a huge Oasis fan. And the other tie in there is I was a big Beatles fan and so was my friend who also who loves Oasis. And so Oasis
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is sort of a reincarnation almost of the Beatles. The Beatles were from Liverpool, Oasis is from Manchester, but there's a lot of connections in the style, the hairdos, the kind of ethos the band holds to and some of the ways they operate. Even, I'll give you some examples when I start talking about the documentary, but there's even some ways the band kind of operates similarly that connects to the Beatles that is kind of amusing.
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This documentary is actually about how after a period of not playing together, the brothers Gallagher came together to do touring and what impact that had on them and their audience members who came to see them. Now, I didn't actually know about all of the drama going on about all the all the fighting the brothers had.
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didn't really know about that stuff because I don't always pay attention to the pop culture headlines of despite me being a film critic about the personal gossip going on with certain groups. So I was a little bit oblivious about all the fighting that had happened. I just remember that, you know, last year there was an announcement that Oasis were going to be touring again. And I was thinking, oh, I'd really love to see them live because since the pandemic I've
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made it a point to see some important bands live, have a bucket list. And so I saw The Cure. I saw Depeche Mode. I just went to see Paul Simon. So I make it at a point to see some important musicians, people that have really made music history. And so I knew that they were going on tour and they were only touring in a few limited cities. So it turns out they're touring again and tickets are
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just about ready to go on sale, but they're only really touring in two cities, which is Boston and Las Vegas, neither one of which is very close to Durham, North Carolina. The point being that seeing Oasis live has been a bit of a Roman Empire situation for me. They're on my list, my short list of groups I still wanna see. So when I heard this movie was coming out and that was going on IMAX, I thought, okay, I'm gonna make an exception.
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and I'm going to go see this movie in the theater because it was an Oasis and I have no idea if he'll ever come to Durham, North Carolina for me to see them live. And I'm so glad I did because the documentary was really very excellent and it wasn't what I thought it was going to be. So what was I expecting? I don't know. I thought they were going to focus a lot, I guess, on the fighting and the drama, the scandals and bringing up all the dirt.
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| [L-R]: Liam and Noel Gallagher |
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But it really wasn't about that at all. There was a little bit of that in that sometimes they'd have these little flashbacks during the show and the concert and they'd kind of flashback to a moment from back in the nineties. But then they automatically flip back to the future. So there was a little bit of that relating to the past when something negative happened. But it was almost like they were redeeming that moment by what happened next is that they didn't linger in the past.
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There's a funny segment right at the beginning where the band is having a rehearsal and it's Noel and the rest of the band and they're all rehearsing really hard. And then Liam strolls in the next day and the way he comes into the room. I don't know if any of you guys saw the another excellent documentary, which is really long, but on the Disney channel, they did the Beatles get back and you would see Paul McCartney. He's always there in the studio.
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working really hard. He's usually the first one there. He's the last one to leave and he's there kind of being the diplomat of the band and making sure everything's running smoothly. Well, that is Noel Gallagher. That's the role he plays. He's, he was there. He's working hard. And then they're like, when is Liam going to show up? Well, he's not coming till the next day. And the way they film it, he kind of strolls in and just goes straight to the mic.
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And then they start singing a song and you see him performing and kind of doing his angry young man thing, basically like yelling into the microphone. If you've seen him sing, you know what that looks like. Then they're finishing a song up and he just stops singing after the, after his part is over as a vocalist. He just walks to the door and exits.
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in the middle of the song and they haven't even completed it yet and he just walks out of the rehearsal studio. So it reminded me of those moments in Get Back when Paul is there kind of paving the way and then John and Yoko strolling at the last minute and they kind of just do their thing and then they leave. That's what it reminded me of. So I thought, oh, are these guys even gonna talk? Because Liam just came in, sang his songs.
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and left. He didn't really even talk to anybody or say, hi, how's it going? Shake hands, give some hugs. None of that. He just was like, I'm here to do my thing. And there's no real kind of coming to Jesus moment or conversation. So that was kind of funny. But then the tour starts and it's really very sweet because, although you do finally at the end, see the two brothers being interviewed together and sort of having a conversation.
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But this is not about them having some intervention or some guided conversation where they apologize about a bunch of stuff and makeup. But they come together and they have a conversation through their songs. There's actually a really interesting moment when you see the first show, when they're on the tour, Noel is standing there by himself and you're not sure if he's just taking a moment alone.
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or what's happening. But then it becomes clear that different individuals start showing up from the band. And finally, at the very, very end, Liam shows up with his sort of posse of people that he walks around with, and they all start walking towards the stadium. They're gonna go up these stairs when they're gonna go on stage, and the audiences are clapping and cheering and waiting for them. And right before they go on stage, the two brothers hold hands.
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and walk on stage together hand in hand. They might not be able to have that kind of conversation that you'd want like a heart to heart, but for them performing together is their activity. And so it was just, it was really sweet. That was a really sweet moment seeing them just be together on stage. And I wasn't expecting to be that emotional and it really was, but the documentary goes further than that because
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It's not even really just about them and their music. It's about the impact of the music on their fans. So along with going through the history of the band and the songs, they show different cities. These are cities that Oasis toured at. So they talk about Manchester. There's some places in South America, I believe Paris. There are these different cities and these different locations they go to. And on each one, they focus on
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| Liam Gallagher on stage |
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a person or a couple of people that went to see Oasis live and how much it meant to them. And you get to hear that person's story of why Oasis means so much to them and what seeing them perform live meant to them. And so it expands the conversation beyond just these two brothers to the impact that music can have on someone else in inspiring them in
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bringing them to some sort of reckoning or helping them cope with a certain challenge. And there's so much going on too about just resilience, about forgiveness, about coming to terms, about growing up. It's really a story about the music of Oasis. For people, they're this symbol almost of these two brothers who were at one point not speaking, they were never gonna speak again. And here they are.
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25 years later performing on stage and it's kind of this hopeful thing and there's this underlying conversation going out throughout about forgiveness and how forgiveness is possible and it wasn't done in a sappy way it was it was more it was under an underlying current and it was really very sweet and just something that was surprising to me this documentary does something unique in that it
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Yes, it has the songs, talks about the brothers, their lives, and also talks about these people who went to see the show. But one thing I really like, and I don't think I've ever seen it in a concert documentary before, so I probably need to see more. After the show ends, the camera doesn't stop there. The camera will focus on people. The show has ended and the audience is dispersing. And then there are people that are lingering there.
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like you do and some of them are standing in awe almost kind of thinking, did that just happen? Did I just see them perform live? There's people crying, sobbing, you see parents with their kids and there's a point made that a lot of people who grew up with Oasis, people that are probably my age, they have now years later implanted that love of Oasis in their kids. So there's kind of this idea of like,
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people passing on a love of Oasis to a younger generation. The very first time they do this is really the best because there's this teenager, I believe he had curly red hair and the camera does this slow pan and it focuses on this particular kid. It's not a super close up shot, but it's like one of those mid shots is like from head to like maybe his middle and he's just standing there.
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kind of soaking in the moment. Like he can't believe he just saw this band perform. It's one of maybe my favorite shots of the entire year. And it's brilliant. I guess they knew they were making this documentary. Otherwise, how could they have been there to shoot all of this footage, this wonderful footage? So I guess the documentary, I'm guessing the documentary was planned. They knew they were making it because that footage was too good. The way they focused on that kid.
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who is basking in the glow, in the afterglow of seeing Oasis. So I believe the theatrical run has ended or is just about over. So there may not be an opportunity to see it on the big screen. It was great in the IMAX screen, even if it was fake max, but it is gonna be coming to streaming soon, I'm sure. I believe it's gonna be streaming on the Disney channel. So soon it should be made available to everybody who subscribes to Disney Plus.
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A trial is always possible. I'm not a shell for Disney Plus though, but I just wanted to recommend this documentary. And if you like Oasis at all, it's amazing. If you just want to talk about the 1990s, if that's a favorite era. Anywho, I really love the documentary. So even if you're not a big Oasis fan, if you remember who Oasis was, and I think it's a
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music documentary, a band documentary that's above and beyond what you normally have with this sub-genre. That is all I have to say about Oasis. Don't look back in anger. It is a great documentary and a good, surprisingly emotional one. So good night and I'll see you next time on one of my stories.
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