| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 14, 2007

It captures a pure moment in time when musical hearts and minds beat as one, when musicians of all stripes came together to work and play hard and leave behind one damn fine-looking corpse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2004

The road doc format's nothing new, but it preserves such a brief, precious moment in rock history that it'll have fans captivated.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2004

There are sterling concert performances by several bands in peak form.

| Sep 3, 2004

A delirious piece of pop ephemera, a time capsule set on the cusp between the Summer of Love and the Day the Music Died.

| Sep 3, 2004

What's most revealing and human about Festival Express are its candid looks at artists bonding aboard the choo-choo.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2004

It's the overnight jam sessions that steal the show.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2004

Here's a chance to listen to the soundtrack for the social upheaval of the late '60s and early '70s.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Sep 3, 2004

A treasure for baby-boomer rockers and a miniature history lesson for younger music fans.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 2, 2004

This is the film's most interesting angle: the tension that arises as rabble-rousers fight with cops and rail against the promoters who dared to charge $16 for a daylong concert.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 2, 2004

The musical performances are the heart of the movie and it's a toss-up whether the spontaneous jams captured on the train or the classic acts on stage are more thrilling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 27, 2004

The result is satisfying, anchored by wonderful performances, including an aching rendition of Bob Dylan's 'I Shall Be Released' with Manuel singing and Guy's smoking-hot version of 'Money.'

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 27, 2004

It emerges as one of the last howls of defiance from the counter-culture decade, made all the more poignant by the fact that many of those involved are no longer around to remember it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2004

A fascinating, fly-on- the-wall (or fly-in-the- dining-car) glimpse of some clearly blotto rock legends talking, singing, hanging out.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2004

It is a rough jewel unearthed, and if you care at all about the era, it will shine for you.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 13, 2004

Proves less a revelation than a confirmation that these performers -- who are joined on various stops by bluesman Buddy Guy, Ian and Sylvia's post-folkie incarnation as Great Speckled Bird, and others -- were everything they were cracked up to be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 13, 2004

One of the great rock 'n' roll movies, a treasure trove of music and a wildly entertaining chronicle of a vanished time.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 12, 2004

It really is [a joyous time capsule].

Full Review | Aug 12, 2004

Despite being filmed on ancient Arriflex cameras, and recorded under difficult circumstances, the performances are as good as any you'd hear today, and far better than most other concert films from rock's early days.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 7, 2004