ELTON JOHN: NEVER TOO LATE

A global cultural icon like Sir Elton John deserves a documentary study commensurate with his everlasting impact and appeal. Co-directors R.J. Cutler and David Furnish answer that calling with this engrossing and intimate portrait of a true trailblazer. But even with a life lived so spectacularly in the spotlight for decades, there is so much still to be mined, so much to be revealed. ELTON JOHN: NEVER TOO LATE captures a groundbreaking artist as he reflects on his life and career in the midst of the globe-trotting Farewell Yellow Brick Road concert tour. The film is an unflinching consideration of the high highs and the low lows of a performer who has battled addiction, faced doubts and confusion about his sexuality and attempted to wrangle with it all in the public eye. Here he is triumphant and complete in the lead-up to his 2023 farewell show at Los Angeles’s Dodger Stadium, able to consider, clear-eyed, his legacy as not only an artist, but as an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a husband and a father. Q & A with co-director RJ Cutler following screening.