Sixteen years after one of rock’s most combustible partnerships fell apart, Oasis have turned their improbable reunion into a big-screen celebration of the music, the fans and the Gallagher brothers themselves.
“Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger” follows Liam and Noel Gallagher through the band’s massive 2025 reunion tour, capturing a comeback that once seemed about as likely as the brothers volunteering to share a hotel room.
Oasis had been absent as a functioning band since 2009, when the famously difficult relationship between Liam and Noel finally reached its breaking point. What followed was a long period in which both brothers pursued their own music while the possibility of an Oasis reunion remained a permanent source of speculation.
Then came the comeback.
The 2025 tour transformed years of wishful thinking into packed stadiums and a new chapter for one of Britain’s defining rock bands. Directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern were there to document it, with Steven Knight, the creator of “Peaky Blinders,” serving as writer and producer.
Rather than treating the reunion simply as another chapter in a long-running celebrity feud, the documentary concentrates on what happened when Oasis became a working band again.
Rehearsal and backstage footage brings viewers inside the comeback, while the concert sequences capture the scale of the shows and the reaction of audiences who had waited years for the opportunity to see Liam and Noel sharing a stage again.
That audience becomes an important character in the film.
Oasis emerged as one of the central bands of the Britpop explosion in the 1990s, but their songs have survived far beyond that era. The reunion attracted longtime followers as well as younger fans who discovered the group after its original run had already ended.
That generational connection helps explain why the comeback became more than a conventional reunion tour. For many fans, these songs are attached to particular periods of their lives. For others, the tour offered a first opportunity to experience music they had inherited from parents, older siblings or decades of rock culture.
The relationship between Liam and Noel inevitably hangs over everything. Their battles became almost as famous as the music, and the band’s 2009 collapse appeared to close the door permanently.
The documentary does not depend on uncovering some dramatic secret explaining how everything changed. Instead, it captures the considerably stranger reality that the Gallagher brothers actually managed to reunite, rehearse, tour the world and remind audiences why people cared so much in the first place.
The result is part concert film, part reunion story and part portrait of the unusually powerful relationship between musicians and the people who carry their songs through their lives.
“Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger” premiered at the Venice Film Festival and is scheduled to reach theaters in limited release on September 11.
For a band whose history was once defined as much by fighting as by music, the film documents something few fans expected to witness again: Oasis moving forward together.
