Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar

Taylor was an icon - the first actress to ever be paid $1m for a movie, married 8 times (to seven men, one of whom died in tragic circumstances) a close friend of James Dean and Rock Hudson, a campaigner and a survivor who nobody should forget.

Sadly though, this trite but nevertheless over-long and rather dull documentary glosses over most of the interesting stuff, bathes Taylor in an entirely one-sided glow of adoration and fails to really get to grips with who she actually was.

If you know nothing about her at all, think Kim Kardashian is somebody whose opinion matters and need a lot of entirely out-of-place 'uplifting' pop music (mostly from decades after Taylor was at her peak) to set the mood, then maybe you'll enjoy this. Otherwise though, unless you're a Taylor completist or really need to see Sharon Stone wearing a horrible pink plastic jacket, Michael Jackson's daughter surrounded by Marshall amps or Kardashian poised primly in a soft-focus apartment with catchlights bouncing off her plastic lips, you can probably give it a miss.

Much more interesting and worthwhile in my opinion is the recent HBO special, Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes. That actually treats its subject with the respect she deserves.