Neil Young - Greendale Reviews
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Overall, it's a pretty irritating movie. But as I watched it, almost in spite of myself, I kept getting caught up in Young's music.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Young might have been thinking high-concept, but on the screen, Greendale devolves into overwrought 'save the planet for another day' screeds and Sunday-school homilies.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
You're better off listening to the album than watching this almost unwatchable movie.
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| Original Score: D
An avant home movie posing as an anthem by an artist whose message gets grainier the closer you look.
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| Original Score: C-
A uniquely and even inspirationally personal work -- particularly if you're down with the movie's message that personal expression is mass culture's Public Enemy No. 1.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Unlike anything you've ever seen (or maybe even wanted to), Young's movie is furious, fascinating and utterly fresh.
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| Original Score: 3/4
It's grungy, honest, disarming and unapologetically original.
What is intended as a multileveled evocation of Young's values approaches parody, a Christopher Guest-like goof on flower children who stayed too long at the fair.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
More an interesting experiment than an engaging piece of entertainment.
This is a patience-testing curiosity strictly for the veteran rocker's hard-core fans.
| Original Score: 1/4
There's no denying the poignancy and power of Young's commitment to old-fashioned -- and, he seems keenly aware, out of fashion -- political activism.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Neil Young's film, less a conventional movie than an album-length music video, is full of ornery wisdom and idiosyncratic sublimity.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Has a purposely amateurish feel that doesn't obscure the careful editing.
Sitting through Greendale in a Dolby-equipped theater, at high volume with bone-penetrating bass, is an ideal way for Young fans to experience the rustic grandeur of the master's latest album.
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| Original Score: 2/4
83 minutes of dark, grainy images grew irritating quickly.
| Original Score: 1.5/4
It's both too obscure and too obvious to be a very good film.
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| Original Score: 2/4
An odd but sometimes lovable little mixture of great rock 'n' roll and charmingly primitive filmmaking.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Think of it as crude visual folk art.
| Original Score: C-
An unapologetically personal and passionately political film that brings the album to life in a way that transcends the traditional long-form music video and defies easy categorization.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
