TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

Movie · 2023 · Music · 2h 49m · PG-13 · English

Curator score: 9.3/10 (26.2K ratings)

It's been a long time coming.

Overview

A concert film documenting Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour (2023-2024). Filmed during the Los Angeles shows, the film captures the tour's ten acts, each representing a different musical era from Swift's career. The film showcases over 40 songs, elaborate stage productions, and Swift's performance.

Ratings

Director

Sam Wrench

Production

Taylor Swift Productions, Silent House Productions

Cast

Taylor Swift, Mike Meadows, Max Bernstein, Paul Sidoti, Amos Heller, Matt Billingslea, Karina DePiano, Melanie Nyema, Kamilah Marshall, Jeslyn Gorman, Eliotte Woodford, Amanda Balen, Tori Evans, Raphael Thomas, Audrey Douglass, Kevin Scheitzbach, Jan Ravnik, Kameron Saunders, Taylor Banks, Natalie Peterson

Where to watch

Disney Plus

Curator Review

Verdict

A maximalist, crowd-pleasing concert film that works both as a document of a blockbuster tour and as a showcase for pop spectacle, fan culture, and precision-engineered performance. It will be especially rewarding for Swift fans, live-music viewers, and anyone curious about how modern stadium pop translates to cinema.

Best for

  • Taylor Swift fans
  • viewers who enjoy concert films and live performance energy
  • fans of big-budget pop spectacle and stagecraft
  • audiences interested in fan culture and communal moviegoing

Skip if

  • you want a conventional narrative film
  • you dislike concert films or performance-first storytelling
  • you are not interested in Taylor Swift's music or persona
  • you prefer intimate, character-driven cinema over large-scale spectacle

Overview

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is less a movie in the traditional sense than a meticulously designed event, built to preserve the scale, polish, and emotional release of a stadium show. The film’s appeal comes from accumulation: hit after hit, era after era, costume change after costume change, all presented with the confidence of an artist who understands exactly how to command a crowd and a camera at once.

Worth noting

What makes it work on screen is not just the music, but the sense of shared ritual. The audience reaction becomes part of the text, turning the film into a document of fandom as much as performance. Even viewers who come in skeptical may find themselves responding to the sheer professionalism of the staging and the way the setlist is structured like a greatest-hits autobiography.

Bottom line

It is not trying to be subtle, and it does not need to be. Its pleasures are scale, control, and momentum, with occasional moments of intimacy that cut through the spectacle. For the right audience, it is a euphoric big-screen experience; for everyone else, it is still an impressive demonstration of how pop music can be turned into cinema.

Top Letterboxd reviews

Joe A (5★) · 9390 likes

Citizen Kane found dead in a ditch.

moxie (4★) · 6745 likes

at least the tiktok live streams never cut out cardigan

SethHouseholder (4.5★) · 5345 likes

I wish she had an era called Bathroom Break

jovana (5★) · 5160 likes

she saw the "i see ratatouille" jokes online and decided to cut the archer out of the film.

nat (5★) · 4466 likes

You know the greatest film of all time was made

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Topics

concert film, pop music, stadium spectacle, fan culture, live performance, music documentary style, crowd energy, 2020s, glossy production

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