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Glastonbury Review

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2.5

Dave White Profile

… lots and lots of footage of people in sombreros … Read full review

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Variety Dennis Harvey

    While one can appreciate helmer's resistance to a conventional, chronological overview, what emerges is a long, structureless muddle that does justice to neither the stellar acts nor changing countercultural times event has encompassed.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett

    A performance film, but sadly the majority of the performers are not the acts that have played at the long-running pop festival over 35 years, but the exhibitionists who make up the crowd.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

    The film does a fairly remarkable job of capturing the attitude of the festival, covering its evolution from quaint little Woodstock knockoff into something much larger that is both hallucinatory and hypnotic. It's Mardi Gras meets Burning Man with an excellent, revolving house band.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

    Best of all though, we get to experience the whole fest itself, over four turbulent decades-an era from which Glastonbury, like Woodstock in its day, offers a halcyon "timeout."

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