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CSNY: Déjà Vu
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 15 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary | Musical
Written by:
Mike Cerre
Neil Young
Directed by: Neil Young
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 25, 2008
DVD: September 30, 2008
Running Time: 96 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for some language and brief war images
Starring David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young
Since their debut in the late 'sixties, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have functioned as the "town criers" of their generation. Though fondly remembered for their harmonies and love songs, the band has never lost their political edge. "CSNY: Deja Vu" finds the band heading out on their "Freedom of Speech 2006" of North America, featuring music from Neil Young's controversial "Living With War" CD. The film also examines events surrounding the Tour in the crucial election season of 2006. Songs from the Tour are woven together with archival material, news footage, and audience reaction and observations, as the film examines the issues surrounding the integration of politics and art. (Roadside Attractions)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Tribune Sid Smith
By no means a typical concert movie; the selections are played mostly in short takes and snippets. It's more a road movie with music, its war topic treated with earnest seriousness.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Doesn’t break any new documentary ground, but it does exactly what it sets out to do: Preserve a live event and make it available to a broader audience.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
One of the great strengths of CSNY is how skillfully it deflects criticism of "four balding hippie millionaires" taking to the stage to criticize American politics; the film is peppered with excerpts from some of the tour's earliest and nastiest critics.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
The average age of the band's members is 62. They don't even bother to disguise that fact. These men look like your grandfather, right up until the downbeat. Then the magnificence of their playing sweeps away all concepts of age. Rock on.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Gary Goldstein
Though it may be another in a long line of choir-preaching, anti-Iraq war documentaries, CSNY/Déjà Vu, Neil Young's effective hybrid of concert film and political snapshot, is one of the shrewdest and most entertaining of the bunch.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Stan Hall
What saves CSNY/Dejà Vu from its self-importance is the surprisingly lively, timely and timeless music. The only dicey onstage moments involve Stills' falling over or wheezing his way through "For What It's Worth."
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
The film, like the tour it documents, wallops you in the face with politics.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
"I hate this stinkin' war," Neil Young announces in this chronicle of CSNY's "Freedom of Speech Tour," and the rest of the movie is just as unapologetically blunt.
Read Full Review >Variety John Anderson
Making music, making fun of themselves and making as much political hay as possible, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young set out to alleviate the public allergy to Iraq War films with CSNY Deja Vu, a doc that seems quite likely to effect a cure.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michelle Orange
The film's mishmash of news footage and concert reviews threatens to devolve into a CSNY wank-fest.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Aidin Vaziri
The documentary seems equally divisive. Like most of Young's recent work, it's scattered and unsubtle.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
The music isn't much of a relief either, mostly because Young keeps cutting away from the performances.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Neil Genzlinger
Has some delicious moments, but you never quite shake the feeling that it’s documenting a tempest in a teapot.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
The concerts themselves are only exciting when Young is at center stage. Although a balding millionaire in his 60s, he retains the ragged energy of a rock 'n' roll road warrior. Not so with the other members, particularly Stills.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
If Young ever converses with the gentlemen from al Qaeda, I expect his comments to be along the lines of "Please don't cut my head off."
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Dylan G. gave it an8:
From Kyle Smith's review: 'Given the way the situation in Iraq has improved, though, another CSNY album could have provided a far more appropriate title: "Daylight Again."' "Improved"? For whom? I'm sure the Iraqis are seeing plenty of daylight. Sheesh.
