- Starring: Aretha Franklin, Gregg Allman, Rick Hall, Roger Hawkins
- Summary: Located on the banks of the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, AL is the unlikely breeding ground for some of the most creative music in American history.
- Director: Greg 'Freddy' Camalier
- Genre(s): Biography, History, Music, Documentary
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 16
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Mixed: 2 out of 16
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Negative: 0 out of 16
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Oct 3, 2013100Do not leave the film until the last credit rolls by.
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88To fans who know the tunes by heart, hearing their history is never less than thrilling. And if you’ve heard that line about “Swampers” and never new who they were, you should. They have been known to pick a song or two.
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83While Muscle Shoals and its presentation doesn't reinvent the wheel—this is your standard talking heads documentary—the treasure trove of stills and found footage makes for a compelling and effortlessly watchable film that even the casual music fan should find themselves totally engrossed in.
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Aug 13, 201380Overall, it’s joyous, uplifting – and as funky as the music at its heart.
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75Maybe the biggest problem with Muscle Shoals is that it doesn’t dig deeper into something even more miraculous than the music.
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70Muscle Shoals’ story has needed telling, and Camalier packs that telling with memorable stories and music—though the film sometimes substitutes admiration for investigation, paving over conflicts and moving on to the next amazing piece of music to get recorded in town.
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50At once overstuffed with interviews and intellectually underdeveloped, the movie charts the area’s music industry and what is lyrically if elusively called the Muscle Shoals sound.
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