Lovely

| Aug 30, 2009

Proves it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 16, 2007

Pleasant, but hardly pulse-quickening stuff.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 7, 2006

The result is simply spellbinding.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2006

Shows the famed songwriter's performance and work off with reverance, and a faithfullness to the live experience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2006

...Even those who haven't followed Young's every recent move could well find his performance here surprisingly captivating.

| Oct 5, 2006

...Neil Young has experimented with film many times, but this is by far the most accessible cinematic treatment of his music; a troubadour at the top of his game.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2006

Young's presence, his heartfelt delivery, and the audience's fore-knowledge of his brain aneurysm add enough weight to make the film a surprisingly emotional experience

| Aug 7, 2006

A potent brew of humanity, empathy, and dignity.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 17, 2006

Regardless of what you call it, Heart of Gold is a revelation and one of 2006's best movies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2006

Demme continues to make concert films not because he's a fan, but because the concerts are inherantly cinematic and make perfect sense.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 11, 2006

...The arrival of Neil Young: Heart of Gold should be an inspiration to music buffs and cinephiles alike.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2006

The best moments in the film are when Ellen Kuras's camera just sits there taking in the whole stage, the whole gorgeous ecosystem.

Full Review | May 12, 2006

The beauty of the movie is in how alive it all sounds: rich and rueful and satisfying.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2006

While his lyrics aren't complicated, both the words and the delivery reflect years of pain and anguish, particularly in seeing time pass, friends come and go.

| May 4, 2006

As pure of a musical concert film as I've ever seen.

| Original Score: B+ | May 3, 2006

The usual scope and spectacle of filmed concerts is done away with for a creation of intimacy.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2006

Lets the music do the talking and that's great as far as I'm concerned: I love Young's sound.

| Original Score: A | Apr 8, 2006

It doesn't penetrate his craggy mystique, or make us hear his music in a new way. Instead, it's the same old choir song.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 7, 2006

It shows the whole of Young's music as a well-worn mixture of brawn and grace. But it reveals the new Young album, Prairie Wind, as a sometimes musty echo of his 1972 acoustic-rock classic, Harvest.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 6, 2006