Festival Express Critic Reviews

Must-see cinema for any serious rock fan.Read the full review

An instant ancillary classic for music fan.Read the full review

Most of Festival Express resonates with the power and passion, even the innocence, of the era.Read the full review

Festival Express should rightfully take its place in rock history as one of the great performance films of all time.Read the full review

To watch the biggest stars of their time in casual conversation, trading riffs and passing bottles, without benefit of publicists, handlers and security goons is to relive an innocent, anarchic time in the entertainment business when music, not marketing, was at the center of the enterprise. Read the full review

The sociological angle of Festival Express is a narrow one--perhaps too narrow--and doesn't overwhelm the film's real selling point, which is some of the best-looking and best-sounding footage of counterculture icons ever screened. Read the full review

A delirious piece of pop ephemera.Read the full review

There were greater rock festivals and there are greater rock movies, but nothing existed quite like this mobile bacchanal, nicely preserved in Festival Express. Read the full review