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Time Out - Tom Huddleston | Screenrush Barometer:  |
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'the real star is Lee's direction. Goosing Godard with an epic track through traffic, loading the screen with whirling naked bodies, withholding the epic scale of the festival until Elliot (and the cinematography) are blitzed to the gills on LSD, this may be a minor movie, but it displays the hallmarks of a major talent.' |
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At Cannes: 'Undoubtedly one of Ang Lee's lighter films, Taking Woodstock is also one of his better ones, and a welcome return to form after the ambitious but deeply flawed Lust, Caution.' |
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Total Film - Jonathan Dean | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Some will revel in it, but (younger) viewers may find Taking Woodstock old hat. Case in point? Even the drug-trip sequence so beloved in Cannes was rendered obsolete days later when Enter The Void screened. All very beautiful, though.' |
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Empire - Philip Wilding | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'One man's near-emotionless trip through an event that was the high watermark for US counterculture moves along without any real sense of purpose or pace.' |
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The Guardian - Philip Wilding | Screenrush Barometer: |
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At Cannes: 'One man's near-emotionless trip through an event that was the high watermark for US counterculture moves along without any real sense of purpose or pace.' |
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New York Times - Stephen Holden | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'For all its sincerity, Taking Woodstock lacks the passion of Mr. Lee's finest films, Brokeback Mountain, Lust, Caution, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Ice Storm. I would add, however, that given a subject that has become synonymous with overblown mythmaking, its modesty becomes it.' |
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The Daily Telegraph - Sukhdev Sandhu | Screenrush Barometer: |
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At Cannes: 'Taking Woodstock is a loving recreation of a time that holds a special place in the hearts of millions of people all across the world. But, pitched at the hypothetical half-way pint between The Graduate and Almost Famous, it's almost too sweet for its own good, tasteful rather than transcendental, imbued with a nostalgia that Lee doesn't convince us he truly feels.' |
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Evening Standard - Derek Malcolm | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'It's an entertainment that's not up to his best work but a complete change of pace from the intense dramatics of Brokeback Mountain and Lust, Caution.' |
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The Times - Wendy Ide | Screenrush Barometer: |
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At Cannes: "a movie that wears the trappings of the countercultural movement like bunting, yet is essentially mild-mannered and rather conventional." |
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The Independent on Sunday - Kaleem Aftab | Screenrush Barometer: |
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At Cannes: 'It's the most fun film in competition at Cannes so far.' |
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