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Are the Britney Spears Documentaries Exploiting Her All Over Again?

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“Framing Britney Spears” appears to have helped Spears fight her conservators in court. But its copycats, like Netflix’s tawdry “Britney vs. Spears,” might do more harm than good.

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Controlling Britney Spears, the New York Times’ latest documentary about the pop icon, observes that one could tell the story of her conservatorship through two Rolling Stone covers—Vanessa

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