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‘The Greatest Love Story Never Told’ Review: Jennifer Lopez Learns Love’s Cost in Revelatory Making-Of Doc


With inside look 'The Greatest Love Story Never Told,' documentarian Jason Bergh chips away at the building blocks of Jennifer Lopez's superstardom.

Emboldened by members of her inner circle, including Affleck and longtime manager Benny Medina, she enlists director Dave Meyers (“I’m Real (Remix)”) and begins coordinating the logistics of the most ambitious undertaking of her career. That Bergh defines their personalities so distinctly (there’s something perfect and darling about her complete indifference to his excitement about Meyers’ truck full of camera lenses), and yet highlights how well they complement one another, lends profundity to his portrayal of their relationship. As the career-long recipient of pervasive and too-often-unflattering media coverage, not to mention the immediate beneficiary of a career-spanning documentary just two years ago with “Halftime,” Jennifer Lopez entered her “This Is Me…Now” era running the distinct risk of overexposure.

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