Nothing Compares

Nothing Compares (2022) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM, and it hands Sinéad O'Connor back her own story. Director Kathryn Ferguson zeroes in on six years, 1987 to 1993, when the Irish singer rose to global fame and was pushed out of the mainstream almost as quickly.

Using archive footage, concert performances and O'Connor's own voice in narration, the film traces how a girl raised amid violence and the strictures of Catholic Ireland refused to behave the way the pop industry wanted her to. Her honesty read as scandal at the time; here she gets to speak for herself instead.

Ferguson reframes all of it through a present-day feminist lens — the things O'Connor was once vilified for now look like courage that arrived too early. A pointed film about what dissent actually costs. Stream Nothing Compares online on iFILM.