Liz Garbus is a documentary filmmaker with many big and small screen credits to her name, including "Bobby Fischer Against the World" (2011) and the HBO series, "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" (2020).
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"What Happened, Miss Simone?" is a somewhat cookie-cutter documentary about a fascinating, complicated person with immense talent and passion. Comprised mainly of performance footage, snippets from Nina Simone's diary, primary interviews, and a few unnecessary childhood recreations, it's all standard music documentary fare,