Billy Idol Should Be Dead

Director Jonas Åkerlund guides the documentary from gorgeously crisp interviews—shot in rich black and glowing white—to lush but cheeky animated sequences that play out like fever dreams, weaving through the mayhem and pivotal moments that reveal the man behind the wild child persona. Allowing every line on Idol’s face to tell the tale as clearly as his voice and the testimony of those who know him well. Billy Idol Should Be Dead is a compendium of ironies—some delightful and others tragic.