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Movie Info

The music and performances of Canadian rock band Arcade Fire.

Genre:

documentary, music
Original Language:

English
Director:

Kahlil Joseph
Producer:

Onye Anyanwu, Dan Bowen
Release Date (Streaming):

May 2, 2017
Runtime:

1h 15m

Cast & Crew

Arcade Fire

Win Butler

Régine Chassagne

Kahlil Joseph
Director

Barry Clark-Ewers
Executive Producer

Yogita Puri
Executive Producer

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Critic Reviews for The Reflektor Tapes

All Critics (16) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (13)

This isn't a standard rockumentary - this is willful inscrutability, audacious pretension and artful interference.

November 13, 2015 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Brad Wheeler
Globe and Mail
A muddled, directionless splatter of concert footage, studio cin-verit, music-video abstraction and Haitian/Jamaican travelogue exotica that aspires to mythmaking but instead strangles itself on its own self-indulgence.

November 5, 2015 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Ben Rayner
Toronto Star
Lacks immediacy and actually seems designed for viewers who will discover and romanticize Arcade Fire 20 years from now.

September 24, 2015 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Tom Keogh
Seattle Times
As a piece of cinema, it's a doggedly indifferent work that tells us little about the music or the people who make it.

September 24, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Leslie Felperin
Guardian
Kahlil Joseph's concert film profile of Arcade Fire is a disorganized mishmash.

September 22, 2015 | Full Review…

Scott Tobias
Variety
Devotees of the group will embrace it on video and perhaps in special-event-style theatrical bookings, but those with a casual interest will tire of it quickly.

September 22, 2015 | Full Review…

John DeFore
Hollywood Reporter
Sonic fugues in between songs allow the band and particularly band leader Win Butler to wax (and wane) philosophical in a way that might tempt the cruel to sardonic smirking, if not hearty laughter.

April 6, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

John Bleasdale
CineVue
The Reflektor Tapes uses the skeleton of a concert film - complete with an encore-of-sorts and post-credits bow-of-sorts - while attempting a meatier document.

February 22, 2016 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Nick Newman
The Film Stage
The Reflektor Tapes is less a documentary about the making of Arcade Fire's 2013 album than a feature-length collage that does neither the band nor its fans any service.

November 11, 2015 | Rating: 2/5

Norman Wilner
NOW Toronto
Arcade Fire were never going to make your standard fly-on-the-wall documentary. While they appear to have fun onstage, music-wise they do take themselves very seriously, and they have every right to do so.

October 9, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Rich Cline
Contactmusic.com
While people who love Arcade Fire might get a kick out of the concert footage, they might just as easily be frustrated by the band's willing aloofness.

September 24, 2015 | Full Review…

Matthew Lowe
FILMINK (Australia)
There's no time for reflection. There are no band arguments, no talk of where art ends and business begins, and precious few unguarded moments.

September 23, 2015 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…

Casey Jarman
Willamette Week