Exhilarating, intimate, fun (and long): 2 critics weigh in on ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’
LOS ANGELES — Taylormania has come to the multiplex.
Two months after she completed the first leg of her globe-conquering Eras Tour, Taylor Swift presided over the premiere of her new concert movie, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” on Wednesday night at the high-end Grove shopping mall in Los Angeles.
The film, directed by Sam Wrench and shot in August during the 33-year-old pop superstar’s sold-out six-night stand at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium, arrives at a characteristically busy moment for Swift, who’s got a new album due later this month in the form of “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” and who’s been traveling the country to watch her NFL player of a rumored boyfriend, Travis Kelce, do his thing on the field.
And yet to hear Swift tell it, she’s practically counting down the days till she gets back on the road for another round of shows.
“I’ve never had a fraction of the amount of fun I had on the Eras Tour,” she told an audience at the Grove peppered with friends and fellow celebs. L.A. Times pop music critic Mikael Wood and L.A. Times film critic Justin Chang were in the house as well and compared notes afterward.
MIKAEL WOOD:
