Taking Woodstock Reviews
DVD Savant
Taking Woodstock gets a lot of things right, especially the behind-the-scenes mechanics, but at times it seems like it's trying to touch on too many things. The poster's flower-power title graphic unfortunately reminds us of "groovy" comedies about
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| Original Score: 4/5
NewsBlaze
This Borsht Belt turned Bacchanalian screen memoir suffers from persistent peripheral vision of a historic moment, while dulling the senses with an overload of housekeeping details. Not exactly a bad trip, but in no way a time travel contact high.
Sly Fox
Effectively employs iconic Woodstock imagery not to regenerate a numbing sense of mass nostalgia but rather as a minimalist backdrop against which to amplify the anguished, intimate ordeal of a frustrated individual who wasn't even there.
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| Original Score: 4/4
