| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 25, 2011

Gives us a vivid feel for the bedhopping, acid-dropping subculture, if a little less insight than you'd hope...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2011

The trip is supposed to be the legendary precursor to the Swinging Sixties but ends up seeming merely fun for a group of people who have never quite grown up.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2011

The prehistory of psychedelia gets an interesting, if minor footnote with this documentary co-directed by Alex Gibney - who made Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Touching, even minor-key-tragic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Regularly fascinating, but often somewhat inaccessible in its lack of historical context for the uninitiated.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Helps us to dive headfirst into both the journey and period and decide for ourselves whether to take it or leave it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2011

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 17, 2011

Magic Trip goes all over the place but never seems to end up anywhere all that revelatory.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 16, 2011

It's the movie "Yellow Submarine'' should have been but didn't know how to be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2011

Sometimes the footage is shaky, and the story threatens to derail itself by spinning off on too many tangents, but ultimately the rough-and-ready style fits with the experimental spirit of the Pranksters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2011

"Magic Trip" is neither as magic nor as trippy as the culture quake that it documents, but it's a valuable flashback and a pleasurable contact high.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2011

This is the story of sunny, casual West Coast visionary utopians, told from the inside out.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 25, 2011

It isn't exactly boring. But it's hard being the designated driver at someone else's bacchanal.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 19, 2011

To be sure, one gets a better sense of the personalities, and the passions stirring their souls, in Wolfe's book. But Magic Trip literally brings these characters to life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2011

Fans of the subject matter, especially students of the Beat era, will find this revisionist reconstruction indispensible; others will share the same tedium claimed by some of the principals on the bus.

Full Review | Aug 18, 2011

The result may have value to '60s sociologists, ethnologists, superannuated hippies, and Kesey fanatics, but for the most part what is on view is a jumble of scenes featuring pranksters getting high on grass and LSD.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 12, 2011

Gibney and Ellwood struggle to create context for or make much sense of the vibrant hodge-podge of material that they excavated from the archives of Kesey, who died in 2001.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 11, 2011

The movie fails to make the cross-country jaunt function as a metaphor for the country's mid-century passage. Minus that, the Pranksters' everything-changing adventure looks a lot like just another road trip.

| Aug 5, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2011