Sundance review: ‘Miss Americana’ is an eye-opening look at Taylor Swift finding a new voice

There’s a scene early on in “Taylor Swift: Miss Americana” that shows that this won’t be another movie-length home video of a pampered pop star.

It happens on the day in 2018 when the Grammy nominations are announced. Swift is on a couch, on the phone to someone — presumably an agent or a publicist — who delivers the bad news that Swift’s album “Reputation” did not get nominated in the major categories. (Ultimately, it received just one nomination, for pop vocal album, but lost to Ariana Grande’s “Sweetener.”)

Swift replies, “this is good, this is fine,” but it’s obvious that it isn’t. But she seems less upset at the Grammy voters than at herself for making an album that wasn’t up to her standards.

Read the full review at sltrib.com.