Oasis reunion documentary turns comeback into a study in fandom and forgiveness

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger arrives in Australia on 10 September, documenting the band’s 2025 global comeback tour and its first live reunion since Noel and Liam Gallagher split in 2009. Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, the two-hour film follows the group from early rehearsals to performances before fans across multiple countries.

The documentary opens with Noel and the band practising before Liam joins them. His arrival is characteristically abrupt: after delivering his first vocal performance, he leaves, while his bandmates continue playing and laughing. It is an awkward, funny beginning to a reunion that once seemed unlikely.

The film presents Noel as more emotionally exposed than Oasis’s public mythology might suggest. He speaks about nerves before opening night, mortality and the emotion of seeing fathers and sons in the crowd. Liam, meanwhile, is portrayed as healthier and vocally stronger, arriving at the tour with something to prove while maintaining the irreverence associated with his stage persona.

For all the scale of the performances, the documentary’s most revealing material concerns the brothers’ relationship. After reportedly spending about 15 years without speaking, they now describe themselves as being in frequent contact, exchanging videos and opinions by text. Their renewed ease offers the film its quietest form of spectacle: not reconciliation as grand gesture, but as everyday familiarity.

The film also considers Oasis’s politics and public image, with the brothers presenting the band as concerned with unity and collective belonging. It does not directly question Noel about his political views, nor does it explain reports that some tickets advertised at £148.50 rose above £350 under tiered pricing. As The Guardian’s Culture review notes, the documentary is more interested in the emotional economy of the reunion than in fully accounting for its financial one.

Visually and sonically, Don’t Look Back in Anger is built for the arena: guitars carry a muscular weight, fans become a moving chorus and songs connect the tour’s international dates. The result is both a record of Oasis’s return and a portrait of the audience’s enduring investment in the band’s mythology.