The documentary makes fascinating connections between the fledgling high-showbiz days of rock 'n' roll and the rise of more versatile singer-songwriters in the 1970s.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2015

It's a fascinating insight into how a classic song is crafted.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2015

Tedesco nails the point: that the beauty of pop music lies not with the prancing pop starlets, but in the hands of the average-looking, insanely talented artists behind the scenes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2015

An entertaining and compelling story about music's unsung heroes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2015

It all feels more like an ambitious home video than a 'proper' film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2015

A must-see for liner-note readers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 16, 2015

Good-natured look at the virtuoso workhorses of classic rock and pop.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2015

"The Wrecking Crew" succeeds as important cultural history. But it's also deeply personal for Tedesco ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 26, 2015

It can be uncomfortable to pull back the curtain on some of the most beloved rock songs of all time. Yet, it's worth it in order to meet The Wrecking Crew.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2015

Mostly, it's hagiography, with stars like Cher and Brian Wilson used as character witnesses to the players' greatness.

| Mar 13, 2015

It'll make you listen to "Good Vibrations," a song you've heard a million times, with fresh ears.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 13, 2015

Though their story has taken decades to reach the screen, it has been worth the wait.

| Mar 12, 2015

Denny Tedesco's lively and loving documentary takes its title from the name collectively applied to the group of two to three dozen Los Angeles studio musicians who dominated rock and pop recordings there during the 1960s and early '70s.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 12, 2015

With its release held up for seven years because of rights issues, Denny Tedesco's illuminating documentary about the unsung L.A. session musicians who provided the backbeat for some of the greatest songs from the '50s through the '80s can now be seen.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 12, 2015

The studio musicians rarely got credit on or off the albums. In The Wrecking Crew, Denny Tedesco, whose father was a Wrecking Crew guitarist, rights that wrong.

| Mar 12, 2015

The unsung heroes who played on stacks of wax during the '60s pop era are celebrated in a hugely entertaining documentary.

| Mar 12, 2015

The Wrecking Crew is a provocative look back at an art form in transition.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 12, 2015

Fascinating ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 11, 2015

Overall, the documentary comes off as a solipsistic, uncritical look at an incredible moment in the history of American music.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2015

These unsung heroes are the subject of an illuminating, witty and comprehensive documentary by Denny Tedesco, son of the Crew's inventive guitarist, the late Tommy Tedesco.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2015