If you love the Stones, this is your concert film. If you're a casual fan or first-timer, strap in for a long performance that breaks the show-business rule of always leaving the audience wanting more.
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04/04/08
Shine a Light (2008)
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Reviews Counted:118
Fresh:101
Rotten:17
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: It may offer little new for fans, but Martin Scorsese's document of the Rolling Stones' electrifying live show should provide satisfaction to audiences.
Theatrical Release:Apr 4, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $5,355,376
Synopsis: The music of the Rolling Stones has lit up the soundtrack to so many Martin Scorsese films ("Gimme Shelter" has appeared in no less than three of his features--GOODFELLAS, CASINO, and THE DEPARTED)... [More]
Starring: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Reviews for Shine a Light
After the 14th song, casual fans feel guilty that their energy is flagging while then-63 Mick's still huffing on
04/03/08
Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light, featuring the Rolling Stones onstage with their talented friends, rattled my old bones to nirvana and beyond as I searched for superlatives adequate to describe the rapturous vibes let loose by the performers.
03/26/08
Top CriticNever aims for transcendence, settling instead for really, really good ... the overriding impression is of a bunch of legendary deviants content to remain in showman mode.
04/03/08
A Rolling Stones concert film more than ... a Scorsese film.
04/03/08
I had a great time, and if you are actually a Stones fan, then you'll love it even more than I did.
06/08/08
Shine a Light does deliver in a way few concert films can - especially given the timeless talents on display
04/04/08
Although the film is expertly made it offers almost nothing new for fans of the Stones, or of Scorsese.
04/03/08
Powerful in its energy, sparkling in its intimacy, the film captures the self-proclaimed world's greatest rock 'n' roll band still at the height of its performance powers during a two-night stint at Manhattan's small Beacon Theater in late 2006.
04/04/08
Scorsese has an obsession with the Stones, and it's revealed in every last dizzying moment of this exceptional musical document.
04/03/08
Like the Stones, Marty's earned the right to coast, especially in his senior years.
04/02/08
Scorsese, who has used Stones songs so prominently in his movies that he's probably paid for a few outbuildings on the band members' country estates, brings an obvious fondness for the group to Shine a Light.
04/04/08
What this film delivers is a close-up of the band doing something they clearly love.
06/07/08
It probably looked great on paper. Oh, sure, the concert scenes in this documentary about the Stones' show in New York are top-of-the-line, but it's nothing new.
04/03/08
There is no such thing as a blank slate with such cultural icons -- too much informs our viewing experience -- and that's both one of the film's biggest strengths and weaknesses.
04/02/08
Top CriticWhere Scorsese's focus for the "The Last Waltz" was on capturing a cultural zeitgeist that supported a generational shift of musical ideas, here he goes after the incredibly honed inner-workings of the Rolling Stones' performance style and musical deliver
04/01/08
Martin Scorsese meets the Rolling Stones in Shine a Light. The synergy is so brilliant, it's nearly blinding.
04/03/08
Martin Scorsese and an ace crew of cinematographers have managed to catch the Stones on two nights in 2006 when the title of 'World's Greatest Rock Band' was rightfully theirs.
04/27/08
For a bunch of guys in their sixties, it's clear that not only do they have energy to spare, but they don't seem to be in any hurry to retire.
04/04/08
This movie is about giving us a privileged glimpse of the Stones in action. It's a record of an astonishing musical chemistry that has been evolving, with no signs of calcification, for nearly five decades.
04/02/08
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