Metacritic Movie Ratings
Taking Woodstock Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

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

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• 70

  out of 100

  The New York TimesStephen Holden

  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.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  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.

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• 67

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

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

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• 63

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  This is Woodstock from another perspective -- one without Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin.

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• 50

  out of 100

  VarietyTodd McCarthy

  The picture serves up intermittent pleasures but is too raggedy and laid-back for its own good, its images evaporating nearly as soon as they hit the screen.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Los Angeles Times

  It's a frustrating complication of a movie with a sprawling story and grand ambitions -- and some truly grand acting -- that stumbles almost as often as it soars. Bummer.

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