I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Critic Reviews
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A superb portrait of a band and an industry in flux.Read the full review
A photographer for magazines like Vanity Fair and GQ, as well as a veteran director of commercials, Mr. Jones brings a trained eye to this, his first documentary. The low gray skies of Chicago prove once again to be a boon to photography, and the city has seldom looked better than it does here, in its chilly, minimalist beauty.Read the full review
It testifies to art's vitality and endurance, despite its marketers' -- and sometimes even its makers' -- efforts to the contrary.Read the full review
An exciting and involving rock music doc, a smart and satisfying look inside that tumultuous world.Read the full review
A modest vérité portrait of Wilco, the engagingly melodious, deeply unglam alt-folk rockers.Read the full review
The unexpected drama captured puts I Am Trying to Break Your Heart in the good company, if not quite the league, of "Let It Be" and "Gimme Shelter."Read the full review
To love Wilco is to believe in a certain rustic intelligence about popular music (and about yourself) and to embrace the Tweedy worldview that you need sarcasm and vagueness to cope with the pitfalls of sincerity.Read the full review
Business intrudes on art.Read the full review
May leave itself open to charges of being little more than a promo feature posing as a documentary, but pic nevertheless is a warts-and-all look at a group of musicians -- and the music biz -- likely to make most record label flacks flinch.Read the full review
