Hate to Love: Nickelback

This is how it reminds you that Nickelback is a Canadian rock group, and what more do you need to know than that? The movie simply repeats that basic tenet over and over, loudly and without any sense of self-consciousness.

As an authorized project primarily designed to celebrate rather than investigate, that hatred goes largely unexamined in this non-fiction affair.

In the age of docs like Listening to Kenny G, which fully embraced and confronted its subject’s cheese, Hate to Love: Nickelback is a missed opportunity to say anything meaningful about the band or to defy the haters

An endearing overview of the band's career to date—especially one to delight Nickelback fans. Even though it might as well be a 90-minute episode of "Where Are They Now."

Nickelback's public reputation is so fraught that even a puff piece about them is inherently quite interesting.

Nickelback: Hate to Love is safe, designed for its fans, and unwilling to rock the boat outside of the vast mainstream. So yeah, typical Nickelback.

Leigh Brooks' documentary won't change your mind about Nickelback, but it will make you appreciate the members of the Canadian band.