Review of Taking Woodstock (2009) by St A — 06 Jan 2010

"i love this hill! I love this hill!".

This review of Taking Woodstock (2009) was written by St A on 06 Jan 2010.

Taking Woodstock has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 20 Aug 2016

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 07 Feb 2013

Ultimately, even Lee appears to lose interest, flashing none of his usual visual panache and, at the end, content to forego any considered…

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By Alex K (2,253) on 11 Jan 2014

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By Dillinger P (324) on 17 Nov 2014

Not worth its 2 hours.....Lets just put it at that. And oh... watch Liev Schreiber as a transgender…

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By Philip Wilding (43) for Empire (3,446) on 11 May 2017

One man’s near-emotionless trip through an event that was the high watermark for US counterculture moves along without any real sense of…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Variety (12,700) on 25 Mar 2017

The picture serves up intermittent pleasures but is too raggedy and laid-back for its own good, its images evaporating nearly as soon as they…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for New Orleans Times-Picayune (573) on 16 Jan 2018

Lee keeps things afloat with an appealing air of levity, including a fun but restrained use of split-screen, an homage to the 1970 doc, as…

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By Trev29 (411) on 01 Feb 2013

A wonderful pleasing film in which the reenactment of the event seems so vivid and accurate. It is entertaining and fun…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 20 Jun 2014

You can’t deny the smiling mood that wafts through the film like incense, and to that extent it honors the original three days; but not once…

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