Taking Woodstock Critic Reviews

Taking Woodstock has the freshness of something being created, not remembered.Read the full review

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be there - to actually be there, man - this movie gets it.Read the full review

It's a low-wattage film about a high-wattage event. Which is somewhat disappointing, though you do get a thoughtful, playful, often amusing film about what happened backstage at one of the '60s' great happenings.Read the full review

This likable, humane movie is not an attempt to recreate the epochal Woodstock Music and Art Fair captured in Michael Wadleigh’s documentary “Woodstock.” It is essentially a small, intimate film into which is fitted a peripheral view of the landmark event.Read the full review

Lee captures the fractious, joyful, monstrously evolving mass it all was.Read the full review

This is Woodstock from another perspective -- one without Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin.Read the full review

The film's major sin of omission: the music.Read the full review

This is as safe and sweet a movie as you could make about America’s sex-drugs-and-rock ’n’ roll-est event.Read the full review

The movie hits its stride when it deals directly with the concert. The more peripheral Elliot is to the story, the better things become.Read the full review