By Peter Bradshaw
Publication Date: 2026-05-16 16:36:00
CHot on the heels of his great feature The Christophers, Steven Soderbergh has now made a surprisingly moderate documentary that is dominated and frankly marred by uninteresting and pointless AI. It’s about the unintentionally poignant final interview that John Lennon and Yoko Ono gave on December 8, 1980 in the Dakota apartment building in New York, hours before his death.
The interviewers were Dave Sholin, Laurie Kaye and Ron Hummel from San Francisco radio station KFRC. On the way out of the building, with the conversation taped, they were approached by a creepy stalker fan; To calm the man down, Kaye gave him a brand new copy of John and Yoko’s new album Double Fantasy. This sinister man was Lennon’s future murderer, who tricked him into signing an album – perhaps this very album – and later shot him. It’s a chilling, stomach-churning twist of fate, although the film avoids emphasizing the interview’s obviously macabre context, understandably favoring a positive take…
