Neil Young Journeys Reviews

Young's amiable, guard-down chatter as he drives that 1956 Ford Crown Victoria all the way from Omemee to Massey Hall in Toronto establishes a sense of heart and soul ...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

It's OK. But seriously, how many Neil Young documentaries do we need?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

A mournful documentary that combines footage of Young in concert in Toronto with a bittersweet trip to his childhood home in Omemee in southern Ontario.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Demme hasn't stopped seeking out new angles on this old warhorse, and even the odd speck of spittle on the lens cannot obscure the fact Young increasingly looks and sounds like one of the all-time greats.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Jonathan Demme makes his third concert film with Young, including shots practically right up his nostrils.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

If this is raging against the dying of the light, long may he rage.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

...just Young and his insinuating voice (which I'm inclined to credit more now than I was 40 years ago), various guitars, harmonica and piano, over which he displays a great and tender command.

Full Review | Original Score: 88/100

Fans of folk rock legend Neil Young who are willing to accept that the guy is well past his prime will respond to the downbeat tone of Jonathan Demme's concert film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The director is putting Young in the audience's lap, allowing the viewer to examine all the creases and crevices of his grizzled face as well as capturing the emotion the singer pours into his songs.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

These two world-renowned and individualistic artists from the worlds of music and film clearly bask in each other's company. We, the audience, would be fools to respond otherwise.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

"Journeys" is about looking back - not in sorrow or wistfulness, but in affection and, often, impassioned remembrance of times past and how they still resonate in the present.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A mesmerizing and intimate visit with a performer who is identified most closely with rock 'n' roll, but whose artistic curiosity has taken him in myriad directions musically throughout his 40-plus-year career.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Neil Young Journeys does for some of us what a rare film can do - it revives and renews our spirit. Neil Young and Jonathan Demme. Heart and soul. Wisdom and age. Fire and ashes. Lightning and thunder.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

For fans, Journeys is like that box set of uneven rarities that they simply must own. For casual friends, it's 90 minutes in good company. For the rest - ho-hum.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

An unusually fulsome tribute to the singer-songwriter from the director of The Silence of the Lambs.

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On its own terms, "Neil Young Journeys" is an enjoyable concert film of a solo show in Toronto, interspersed with memories of his Canadian boyhood.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

I'd say the movie does a fine job of completing the trilogy, but I wouldn't be surprised if Demme and Young have more in them yet.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The concert camera work is sometimes a little tight for comfort (not really interested in Young's bridge work), though it adds to the intensity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Like Young, Demme often takes an iconoclastic route. This is in part a concert film, yes, but not a traditional one.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Movie fans probably don't need to hear him sing "Ohio" again, but "Neil Young Journeys" -- Jonathan Demme's second Young doc, if you're counting -- does have some new wrinkles.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4