- Studio: Focus Features
- Release Date: Aug 26, 2009
- Starring: Demetri Martin
- Summary:
- Director: Ang Lee
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Music
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 35
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Mixed: 17 out of 35
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Negative: 1 out of 35
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75Taking Woodstock has the freshness of something being created, not remembered.
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60Something of a traffic jam--even with his usual restraint, Lee couldn't recount a key moment of the '60s without a blurry parade of personalities--and also lullingly dull.
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38Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock achieves an amazing feat: It turns the fabled music festival, a key cultural moment of the late 20th century, into an exceedingly lame, heavily clichéd, thumb-sucking bore.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 9
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Mixed: 1 out of 9
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Negative: 2 out of 9
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