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 In 2011, Avicii, whose real name was Tim Bergling, took the world by storm with his groundbreaking hits, breaking records and wowing audiences with his infectious electronic dance music. Then, in an instant, it was all over when Bergling took his own life in 2018. This documentary charts Avicii’s meteoric rise to fame and his sudden death through never-before-seen tour footage and behind-the-scenes glimpses into his creative process. Not all documentaries have to be complicated. Nontraditional stylistic approaches to documentaries, serious or not, can lead to some of the best the medium has to offer, whether the film in question is “Dick Johnson is Dead” or “Kokomo City.” Yet there has been much complaining about the incessant cinematic propensity to churn out films that follow a celebrity’s life from cradle to grave on an assembly line that cares nothing beyond what viewers can already find in a quick perusal of Wikipedia. That doesn’t even include documentaries co-produced by th...