CSNY: Deja Vu Critic Reviews

One of the great strengths of CSNY is how skillfully it deflects criticism of "four balding hippie millionaires" taking to the stage to criticize American politics; the film is peppered with excerpts from some of the tour's earliest and nastiest critics.Read the full review

Though it may be another in a long line of choir-preaching, anti-Iraq war documentaries, CSNY/Déjà Vu, Neil Young's effective hybrid of concert film and political snapshot, is one of the shrewdest and most entertaining of the bunch.Read the full review

The average age of the band's members is 62. They don't even bother to disguise that fact. These men look like your grandfather, right up until the downbeat. Then the magnificence of their playing sweeps away all concepts of age. Rock on.Read the full review

The film, like the tour it documents, wallops you in the face with politics.Read the full review

Making music, making fun of themselves and making as much political hay as possible, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young set out to alleviate the public allergy to Iraq War films with CSNY Deja Vu, a doc that seems quite likely to effect a cure.Read the full review

The documentary seems equally divisive. Like most of Young's recent work, it's scattered and unsubtle.Read the full review

The music isn't much of a relief either, mostly because Young keeps cutting away from the performances.Read the full review