CSNY Déjà Vu 2008

Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune: CSNY: Deja Vu brings back glimmers of the old glory and touchingly suggests that the body may age, but the spirit of the Woodstock nation endures. Read more

Ted Fry, Seattle Times: Might have packed a stronger punch with more commitment to both the music and the message. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Much like the album it's promoting, it's both urgent and regrettably cacophonous. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The movie makes you glad that CSNY is still out there rocking in the free world. It makes you doubly glad they're not leading it. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: Recent and archival interview, news, war and music footage, which often juxtapose the Vietnam and Iraq conflicts, round out this unflinching, well-constructed picture. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: It will doubtlessly end up preaching to the choir -- Bush backers beware -- but that choir should enjoy it. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: As laudable as the idealism may be, the movie sometimes feels like a self-congratulatory victory lap. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Young, who directed the movie, compares today's climate with the Vietnam era, and doesn't bother hiding his disappointment in the present. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: The band's harmonies have crumbled and their new songs sound like paint being chipped off an aluminum shed with a garden rake. Their hits would sound better on the next eight-track you see at a yard sale. Read more

Sara Vilkomerson, New York Observer: It's fun to see these four guys back together, hair a little grayer, paunches a bit more pronounced (though, weirdly, David Crosby looks exactly the same), fighting and harmonizing just like the old times. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Achieves a level of unexpected power and poignancy. Read more

Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle: Many come to the shows unprepared for the heavy sermonizing. Others call for it. The documentary seems equally divisive. Read more

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Stephen Garrett, Time Out: Neil Young rolls the cameras on himself and geriatric bandmates David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash as they tenaciously cling to social relevance by generally preaching to the converted during their 2006 antiwar Freedom of Speech tour. Read more

John Anderson, Variety: Helmer Bernard Shakey -- a.k.a. Neil Young -- has constructed a chronicle of his old band's Freedom of Speech tour of summer '06 and come up with an aud-friendly, activist musical that seems sure to raise both political ire and major bucks. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: One of the great strengths of CSNY is how skillfully it deflects criticism of 'four balding hippie millionaires' taking to the stage to criticize American politics; the film is peppered with excerpts from some of the tour's earliest and nastiest critics. Read more