There's no problem with a little bias, but Friedman's fan-boy perspective puts the subjects of Only the Strong Survive on too high a pedestal.

Content to merely serve as a cluttered, heart-shaped scrapbook, missing many more stories than it bothers to include.

... the music is great, but as a film thumbs down.

...fails to give audiences as much frame of reference for the unifying economic, political and atmospheric elements that made the Stax brand of R&B soul music so powerful.