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Review of by Rick Groen for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) — 30 Jun 2012

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Ultimately, Shine a Light is illuminating indeed, even fascinating, but not in the way Scorsese intended. What he has created, inadvertently, is an invaluable documentation of semi-fossilized Stones – musicologists may like it, sociologists should love it and, some distant day, anthropologists will treasure it.

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This review of Shine a Light (2008) was written by and published by The Globe and Mail (Toronto) on 30 Jun 2012.

Shine a Light has generally received positive reviews.

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