‘The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel’ Review: Netflix Doc Is Funny and Moving, but Could Use More Hillel Slovak

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Contrary to the interpretation you may have read in some outlets, the Red Hot Chili Peppers haven’t really distanced themselves from or disavowed the upcoming Netflix documentary, The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel.

What the band said, in a statement on Instagram, was that they participated in a documentary about original co-founding member Hillel Slovak and it’s now being presented as a documentary about the Red Hot Chili Peppers — which, they insist, was never how they saw it.

The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother Hillel

The Bottom Line Satisfying, though questionably focused.

Venue: SXSW Film Festival (24 Beats Per Second)
Airdate: Friday, March 20 (Netflix)
Director: Ben Feldman
1 hour 33 minutes

Based on the cumbersome title and, honestly, a lot of Ben Feldman’s film,

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