Shine a Light

Name: Shine a Light
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: April 4, 2008
Duration: 122 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger

2008

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Paramount Vantage | Release Date: April 4, 2008 | PG-13

Starring: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger

Summary: Martin Scorsese's concert documentary Shine a Light will show the world the Rolling Stones as they've never been seen before. Filming at the famed Beacon Theatre in New York City in fall 2006, Scorsese assembled a legendary team of cinematographers to capture the raw energy of the legendary band. (Paramount)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Genre(s): Music, Documentary

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 122 min

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Joel Selvin

An exhilarating documentary. Read full review

Michael Sragow

Shine a Light has two maestros, Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, and once they begin to mesh, around the third or fourth song, they put on a display of showmanship that erases the line between art and entertainment. Read full review

Peter Travers

This you-are-there spellbinder is a master director shining his light on the best rock band on the planet. Read full review

Richard Corliss

Shine a Light isn't the record of a unique event, so it's not on the exalted level of "The Last Waltz." But it has its own fascination. The film is less about the music than about the dedication of show-biz troupers--about doing your job, year after year, as if it's your joy. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones "documentary" (i.e. concert film) is a first: the only Scorsese film that does not feature the Stones' "Gimme Shelter." Really. I think the Dalai Lama even hummed the guitar solo in "Kundun." Read full review

David Edelstein

My favorite rock-concert movies, Jonathan Demme’s "Stop Making Sense" and "Neil Young: Heart of Gold," are organic: They chart a miraculous path from sound to soul. Scorsese stays on the outside, as befits his temperament and his subject. Yet there is, amid the whirligig spectacle, a spark of connection. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

It's a late-night infomercial masquerading as a concert movie, more an advertisement for vitality than a picture of vitality itself. There's something self-congratulatory, preening, about both the performance and the filmmaking. Read full review

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Haandy

Feb 12, 2022

Christina Aguilera cantando com a lenda do Mick Jagger completamente lendários

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PhilT.

Apr 17, 2008

Forget the doubters who say this is just a concert film. Many years from now this will be seen as the masterpiece it is - a brilliant celebration of the world's greatest rock n roll band in action! A joyous and magnificent experience!