“This tour fixed a lot of things,” reflects Noel Gallagher towards the end of this surprisingly sentimental documentary about Oasis’s hugely successful 2025 reunion gigs. That is clearly evidenced – though not immediately revealed in the film – by the fact that he and brother Liam (or “Our kid” as he always affectionately calls him) are interviewed together, with smiles on their faces.

Quite how this healing came about is somewhat glossed over, in a film that concentrates on the energy in the room as the Mancunian band returned on stage for the first time since the acrimonious 2009 split.

Premiering out of competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival, before arriving in cinemas from 9 September, Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger follows a long line of docs about the band’s highs and lows. Here, you won’t learn a great deal you didn’t already know. But if you want to watch grown men (and women) cry, then this is the film for you, as the bucket hat brigade get to relive their youth, like it was 1994 all over again.

“Nostalgia seems to be a bad word these days,” notes Liam, but he sees no problem in turning the clock back 30 years, banging out the hits and giving the public what they want. And, boy, do they want it.

After a catch-up intro, that goes from the band’s formation to its breakthrough with landmark LP Definitely, Maybe and the in-fighting that led to the dissolution of the group following a huge barney in Paris, the film goes straight to May 2025, six weeks before the first gig in Cardiff.

Watching Noel orchestrate the rehearsals, initially without Liam on vocals, is fascinating. Even more so when Liam rocks up, sings and then departs, leaving the band to speculate on his mood. By the time we get to Cardiff, Noel confesses he wasn’t happy with his performance in the first 40 minutes, nerves getting the better of him. Liam, his ego still supersonic, was anything but, saying he was “right up for it”, his snarly voice overcoming the cavernous acoustics of the Principality Stadium.

After the obligatory stop to Manchester, a Heaton Park homecoming, the film becomes more impressionistic. Gigs in Tokyo and Buenos Aires are shown, but directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern aren’t particularly interested in cataloguing the whole tour. Rather, this is one for the fans, and the emotions felt at this comeback.

One girl, a survivor of the 2017 bombing at Manchester Arena during the Ariana Grande concert, talks movingly about how the lyrics for Don’t Look Back in Anger were so meaningful to her, even before seeing it live for the first time at Wembley.

By and large, the songs sound great and – whether or not you caught the band on the reunion tour – it’s real lump-in-the-throat stuff, when they play classics like Acquiesce, Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rock ‘n’ Roll Star. Needless to say, the Gallaghers' colourful language gets plenty of airtime, and Liam’s cheeky humour is very much intact. “I forgot how funny he was,” remarks Noel, before Liam goes off on one about Mick Jagger strutting the same moves night after night.

Some moments are very strange, not least when we go diving with two Korean fans, and of course if Oasis’s music leaves you cold, then you’re unlikely to be converted here. While Lovelace and Southern (who both, curiously, made 2010 doc No Distance Left to Run, about Oasis rivals Blur) don’t dig deep into the Gallaghers’ past scuffles, the film captures well the excitement around the reunion, something that even the brothers are taken aback by. “It’s like the rebirth of Christ,” says one fan. Well, not quite…

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger arrives in UK cinemas and IMAX on 9 September, and will stream on Disney+ at a later date.

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