Spanning more than two hours, the album comprises nine original tracks and 21 cover songs.
It isn’t long into the film when the hagiographic soundbites from famous interviewees become the dominant mode.
Her recent rendition of “Frozen” breathtakingly reinvented the queen of pop’s icy electro-pop hit from 1998 into a stirring, nuanced keyboard dirge.
Blue Smoke contains plenty of evidence that Parton can still write songs full of imagination, humor, and history.
“Young and Beautiful” might be the very best thing to have emerged from Luhrmann’s epic undertaking.
Whatever spurred Twilight Time to commit Steel Magnolias to a 3,000-disc run, the results look generally pretty good.
Despite the standard-issue sap of its garden-variety plot, the film isn’t out to change your life or desperately steal your tears.