Music, Documentary  •  2025  •  77 min

Mitski: The Land (2025)

Mitski: The Land poster

Mitski: The Land (2025)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral
Family Values: Mixed
Christianity: Negative

Viewer Rating
8.4

Overview

Mitski: The Land is a 2025 concert documentary directed by Grant James, capturing singer-songwriter Mitski's live performances over three nights at Atlanta's Fox Theatre in September 2024. The film features Mitski alongside her backing band, including Ty Bailie and Callan Dwan, in support of her 2023 album The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We.


Starring Cast

Mitski  •   Ty Bailie  •   Callan Dwan

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

Political: Leans Left
Confidence: High

The concert film's focus on themes of isolation, identity, and emotional vulnerability through Mitski's performances subtly aligns with progressive values emphasizing personal and social introspection over collective or traditional structures.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High

Visible diversity appears in the performers, with an Asian-American lead artist and a Latina band member, contributing to inclusive representation in a concert setting. The performance framing emphasizes personal themes of isolation and connection without critiquing traditional identities.

Secondary

LGBTQ: Neutral
Confidence: High

Mitski's concert documentary offers an incidental portrayal of LGBTQ+ elements via the artist's presence and music, which carries queer interpretations in broader context, but focuses primarily on her musical delivery and stage presence without affirmative or problematic framing of identity.

Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High

The film offers no substantial portrayal of family structures, roles, or values, centering instead on the artist's solitary performance and themes of isolation and longing. This absence of family content leads to a neutral assessment.

Christianity: Negative
Confidence: High

Song performances depict Christian imagery as bleak and ineffective against human suffering, with God offering no salvation and divine promises revealed as delusions amid addiction and entrapment. Tracks like 'Bug Like an Angel' and 'The Deal' portray faith as a source of irony and resignation rather than hope or redemption.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: High

No transgender characters or themes appear in the concert film. The documentary captures Mitski's live performance of her album, focusing on musical and emotional expression without addressing transsexual identity.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High

Mitski: The Land is a concert documentary capturing the artist's live performance of her album, without adaptations of source material or portrayals of characters with established genders, resulting in no gender swaps.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: High

Mitski: The Land documents a live concert performance by Mitski and her band, featuring real individuals portraying themselves without any adaptations, source material characters, or recast roles that could involve race swaps.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.4

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
8.8
The Movie Database logo
8.0

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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N/A

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