Critic Reviews
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Portland Oregonian
Movies don't get any more real than this.
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Boston Globe
Steve Morse
The impact of this stunning film - and the lessons to be learned from it - are as remarkable as when it was first released 30 years ago.
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Miami Herald
Remains a remarkable, almost timeless study.
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Entertainment Weekly
Remains the only rock & roll film that exerts the saturnine intensity of a thriller.
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San Francisco Examiner
Timeless, and as fine a depiction of human folly as you're likely to see at the movies.
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Variety
Staff (not credited)
Captures that petulant omnisexuality that made many adults consider Jagger a threat to their daughters, sons and household pets alike.
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LA Weekly
Signals the real end of the party, charting a denouement that arcs from blissful ignorance to violence and its ever-present threat to a final retreat.
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Mr. Showbiz
Editor
Disturbing, powerful essay on one aspect of the rock and drug culture at the end of the 1960s.
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San Francisco Chronicle
James Sullivan
It remains as unsettling as ever.
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Christian Science Monitor
The topic is well-suited to the Maysles brothers, who helped pioneer reality-centered "direct cinema" techniques.
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Village Voice
A pop culture document for a mass audience.
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Chicago Reader
A strong example of the cinema verite style at work, yet few films of the school show up the crisis of its "noninvolvement" policy more tellingly.
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