The latest from T.J.Martin and Daniel Lindsay, directors of “Undefeated” and “LA 92,” TINA” looks like another documentary that came off of a factory line, complete with the usual panning shots of contact sheets, dramatic zooms into rolling tapes, cross-cutting between audio interviews and their published print versions, melodramatic score cues doing their best to emulate Philip Glass. But for the most part, the film still feels powerful despite those pedestrian stylistic leanings, purely because of its constant centering of Tina Turner’s voice in the telling of her story, always comes back to the story of the Queen of Rock n’ Roll, “the woman who taught Mick Jagger to dance,” as told in her own words. At least Martin and Lindsay don’t do the star the disservice of stereotyping her nor sensationalizing the worst parts of her life in the same way so many have before.

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