Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back
Cine Art Pictures | Release Date: May 17, 1967 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
84
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Universal acclaim based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Don't Look Back is a spellbinding portrayal of a gifted artist at the peak of his creative brilliance. Read full review
100
CineVueChristopher Machell
The total effect of these sequences is the feeling of hanging out with Dylan and his entourage. This is perhaps Don’t Look Back‘s greatest trick – convincing its audience that the Dylan we see here is anything other than a column of air: elusive, shifting and perpetually enigmatic. Read full review
100
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Both a great concert movie and an amazing documentary of mid-'60s cutting-edge pop culture, this cinema verite record of Bob Dylan's pre-electric, pre-Band 1965 British tour was such a candid and unsparing look at stardom's inner sanctums and Dylan's caustic personality, audiences were shocked. [29 Oct 1999, p.M]
100
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
The film is one of the great portraits of the artist as impossibly gifted young snot. [31 Dec 1999]
90
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Pennebaker has fashioned a relentlessly honest, brilliantly edited documentary permeated with the troubador-poet's music. Read full review
88
San Francisco ExaminerCraig Marine
Easily one of the best documentaries on any subject ever made. It is also one of the most cinematically influential. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineCarson Lund
Even 48 years after its release, and well into Dylan’s current phase of relative transparency, D.A. Pennebaker’s Dont Look Back retains something of a forbidden quality, a feeling that we shouldn’t be privy to the things it shows us. Read full review
88
USA TodayMike Clark
An intimate portrait of the Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan during his final acoustic tour through England, it hits with escalating emotional force as the decades go by, capturing a fleeting musical period as brilliantly as any movie ever has. [07 Jan 2000]
83
ConsequenceMatt Melis
As fascinating as it is to peek in and eavesdrop on what appears to be an authentic Bob Dylan, Dont Look Back captures something that’s perhaps even more indicative of the songwriter’s nature: Dylan in transition. Read full review
80
The New York TimesDonal J. Henahan
It is an absorbing film. Whether one is a member of the under-30 set that regards Mr. Dylan as a spokesman, or one of the vanishing Americans over that age, this look into the life of a folk hero is likely to be both entertaining and occasionally disturbing. Read full review
80
EmpireStaff (Not Credited)
Wonderfully revealing and mythologistic. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The movie is like a low-rent version of the rock concert documentaries that would follow. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The film's greatest incidental pleasures are images of a time when outlaw musicians wore suit jackets and the craggy Dylan was a delicate, unconventionally handsome young man. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
The music is great, and the film would be memorable for its goofy, syncopated opening sequence alone. Read full review
50
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
The abiding memories of Don't Look Back are lack of privacy, dull cliques, stumble-drunkenness, very insecure British artists (Price, Donovan), and Dylan's bored, amused sparring with anyone trying to point him in the direction of Damascus. Read full review
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