An image from “Pavements.” (Utopia)

Review by Ann Hornaday (3 stars)

Nonfiction filmmaking is in something of a rut, with funding drying up for nearly everything except true crime and celebrity biopics. Filmmaker Alex Ross Perry makes the most of this reality with “Pavements,” his alternately self-conscious and disarmingly sly film about the band Pavement. Subscribe for unlimited access to The Post You can cancel anytime. Subscribe

If you know, you know: In the 1990s, the group fronted by California native Stephen Malkmus was a low-fi phenomenon, snatching snippets of everything from the Velvet Underground to Alex Chilton to create its own defiantly un-pandering scrounge act. Evolving in a decade from underground to indie to almost-breakthrough to college rock canonization, the band

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