Music

We All Got The Beach Boys Wrong—This Film Gets Them Right

GOD ONLY KNOWS

An exquisite new documentary on Disney+ recontextualizes the “surf and sun” rockers as far more “artful” than “oldies.”

Colin Fleming
Colin Fleming
Photograph of The Beach Boys
Disney+
Colin Fleming

Colin Fleming

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