There must be better, more useful ways of amusing themselves but obviously none which would allow them to strut the stage to the plaudits of a baying crowd like latter-day rock stars.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/6 | Nov 9, 2007

Very funny.

| Nov 9, 2007

Like most guitar solos, the film doesn't quite know when to quit.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2007

Despite the film's admirable brevity it's still hard to maintain a wry ironic grin for a full 81 minutes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2007

Shot in a raw, grungy style that lends the film a degree of authenticity, AGN is a riff-roaring experience that rarely hits a bum note.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 9, 2007

A nuts-and-bolts document of the annual Air Guitar World Championships which take place in the rural outpost of Oulu in Finland.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Nov 9, 2007

A delightfully surreal look at a bizarre performance art.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2007

A genuinely funny and absorbing documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2007

Sure, there is an infectious goofiness in watching a grown man in a red robe and Hello Kitty breastplate rock out on an imaginary ax. But the gag is spread pretty thin.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2007

The film's action footage -- lots of men and women thrashing around with a theoretical Fender in hand -- gets pretty tedious after a while. There is only so much self-inflicted embarrassment one can bear watching.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 22, 2007

In this pitch-perfect documentary about the very real rise of air guitar competition in the United States, and two of its top performers, stony thoughts will arise as to whether one is suddenly trapped inside a satire that got wrapped in a reality.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 11, 2007

The suggestion is that C-Diddy can be seen as a sort of ambassador for the 'make air, not war' sentiment. Why not? Even as real ambassadors go, we could do worse.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 20, 2007

The film is a lovingly hilarious portrait of a bizarre and endearing pastime.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 13, 2007

[A] jolly, oddly compelling and genuinely suspenseful documentary.

Full Review | Apr 11, 2007

A favorite on the film festival circuit, Alexandra Lipsitz's exuberantly funny documentary follows the triumphant path of an American air guitarist as he rises from U.S. East Coast champ to the top rankings of the international air guitar festival.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 1, 2007

It's one of the charms of Air Guitar Nation that much of it plays like a mockumentary in which you're not quite sure who's pulling your leg. But it's real, even if the guitars are not.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2007

Director Alexandra Lipsitz doesn't do much more than chronicle the noise, but it's intermittently fun stuff.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 29, 2007

It's hard not to grin and admit that, yes, this is almost an art form.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 28, 2007

Air Guitar Nation does a fine job of bottling prelapsarian exuberance.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Mar 24, 2007