All The Beauty and the Bloodshed – 7

This was three films in one, but none dug as deeply as I would have liked. Nan Goldin’s crusade to make museums expunge the Sackler name bookended the documentary, but we never saw how the museums grappled with the issue. Second was Nan Goldin’s loveless upbringing, which produced the film’s title and her sister’s suicide, told through scrapbook phots. Third, and most intriguing, was Goldin’s artistic output, but the movie didn’t address the question I’ve always had: how did her photographs of grungy people in their underwear make her an art star? You could say her upbringing led to her art, and the success of her art enabled her to accomplish her crusade, but a film that concentrated, instead, on any of those three topics could have been better.