CSNY/Déjà Vu
Roadside Attractions | Release Date: July 25, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
7
Negative:
1
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75
Chicago TribuneSid 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
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland 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
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk 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
70
Washington PostAnn 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
70
Los Angeles TimesGary 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
67
Portland OregonianStan 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
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
The film, like the tour it documents, wallops you in the face with politics. Read full review
60
VarietyJohn 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
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth 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
50
Village VoiceMichelle Orange
The film's mishmash of news footage and concert reviews threatens to devolve into a CSNY wank-fest. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
The music isn't much of a relief either, mostly because Young keeps cutting away from the performances. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleAidin Vaziri
The documentary seems equally divisive. Like most of Young's recent work, it's scattered and unsubtle. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNeil Genzlinger
Has some delicious moments, but you never quite shake the feeling that it’s documenting a tempest in a teapot. Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill 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
25
New York PostKyle 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
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