Joan Baez calls Pete a "saint," and Jim Brown's documentary makes a strong case for his canonization.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2008

irector Jim Brown tells the story well even if he refuses to address any of the singer's missteps (such as becoming infuriated when Dylan first plugged in at the Newport Folk Festival).

| Jan 18, 2008

A love letter to the singer.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 26, 2007

Forget the controversial politics (that's what folk music is all about), this is a fascinating story with great music, despite the tedious last 15 minutes.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 10, 2007

A stirring, revelatory film, which captures Seeger as the media-age Johnny Appleseed of folk.

| Original Score: A | Nov 7, 2007

Fans like Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan express unvarnished awe, but it's the well-told arc of Seeger's life that makes the strongest impression, as director Jim Brown takes us from the highs to the lows and back up again.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 26, 2007

As the loving documentary, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, makes clear, Pete Seeger is still busy, still angry, still hopeful, still singing.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 26, 2007

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song could have been called Pete Seeger: The First Punk. As the film traces the singer's long life, it also, inevitably, tracks the evolution of American countercultures through much of the 20th century.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2007

Shallow, very officially sanctioned, and overly compressed.

Full Review | Oct 23, 2007

An amazing man and an amazing film.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Oct 23, 2007

More than an appreciation, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song is an inspiration.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2007

The Power of Song shows this icon of 20th-century music to be a man of passion and principle, and a true American. An important figure, an important film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 11, 2007

[Seeger] traversed decades, styles, even continents to bring the people's music to the people. This distinction is made with suitable and skillful great appreciation by director Jim Brown in Pete Seeger: The Power of Song.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2007

A full and fond documentary.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2007

You sense that Seeger may feel his greatest legacy is not what he accomplished, but what his presence gave others the courage to accomplish. Even if it was just singing along with a roomful of strangers.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 27, 2007

If you've never heard of Pete Seeger or if you've known him all your life, see this film. Walking out, you might just be ready to put the world together.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 21, 2007

Director Brown has made a career of chronicling the history of American folk music, and Pete Seeger: The Power of Song is a worthy companion piece to his 1982 debut, The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time?

| Original Score: B | Sep 20, 2007

The filmmakers treat this aged curmudgeon almost too reverently, but it is hard not to be awed by this gentle, resolute soul because of the ideas he steadfastly and faithfully represented.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 14, 2007

I don't know if Pete Seeger believes in saints, but I believe he is one. He's the one in the front as they go marching in.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 14, 2007

As certain to get auds singing as the man himself, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song is a terrific, multilayered portrait of a singer whose legacy extends beyond music and into every major social action movement since the 1940s.

| Sep 8, 2007