At the end of “In Whose Name?,” the Nico Ballesteros -directed documentary spanning six years of Kanye West ‘s life, the rapper breaks from the narrative to confront the challenges of assembling the film. “We don’t know if we glued together the story,” West says in a voiceover. “If you’re documenting every almost waking moment and sometimes sleeping moments of my life and you don’t understand the throughline, then the world’s not going to understand the throughline. It’s just going to look crazy or it’s going to be one antic to the next antic, the way the media words it.”

There isn’t much of a throughline, though, for “In Whose Name?,” other than its linearity. The film attempts to thread more than 3,000 hours of footage collected between 2018 and 2024 into an unflinching portrayal of

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