It's easy to be cynical about the release of Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl.

The film, which was released in cinemas for just one weekend to celebrate the release of her new album The Life of a Showgirl , when laid bare, is not the type of project that should have been up on the big screen.

The 89-minute film plays the Taylor Swift-directed music video for 'The Fate of Ophelia ' not once but twice during that runtime, and the rest of the cinematic experience is mostly made up of the lyric videos for the 12 tracks on the new album. A project any other artist would have just popped up on their YouTube channel and called it a day.

Yet Swift is not any other artist.

Over her decades-long career, she has forged a fan base willing to travel the world for her, c

See Full Page