"Peter Gabriel: Back to Front" (The Guardian 21/03/14)

Peter Gabriel: Back to Front **

Dir: Hamish Hamilton. With: Peter Gabriel. 97 mins. Cert: PG

As “Sledgehammer” illustrates, Peter Gabriel’s album “So” stands as a repository of irresistibly lively, alert mid-Eighties pop, but this record of the singer’s current retrospective tour sees its songs stuffed and mounted in disappointingly drab surrounds. For most of its duration, we’re watching baldy men dressed in black against a black backdrop, being stalked by revolving light rigs that resemble crap Transformers. Song-by-song, you’d almost always take the videos that entered into MTV perma-rotation over anything attempted here – and lovely though “In Your Eyes” remains, Gabriel and guitarists’ synchronised dad-dancing to it isn’t likely to supplant John Cusack’s last stand in Say Anything… in the cinematic memory. 

Peter Gabriel: Back to Front is now playing in selected cinemas.