Not only an unmissable slice of nostalgia, but also a masterpiece of pop cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 8, 2024

It’s the only serious competition to Jonathan Demme’s 1984 Stop Making Sense as the greatest rock concert movie ever.

| Nov 7, 2023

...has a time-capsule quality that’s off the charts.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 20, 2023

No American movie this year has been as full of the “joy of making cinema” as Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz.

| Sep 18, 2023

May we all someday find somebody who looks at us the way Martin Scorsese photographs Robbie Robertson.

| Sep 8, 2023

The combination of shagginess and directorial fussbudgetry that marks the final product also functions as a reminder that Scorsese often does his best work while shaping discord into the type of art that retains distinct traces of that turmoil.

| Sep 9, 2022

There has been a considerable number of exemplary concert films over the years, and this one ranks just under the 1984 Talking Heads classic Stop Making Sense as my pick for the best of the best.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 1, 2022

Martin Scorseses radical advancement of the concert documentary receives a superlative transfer that reaffirms the film as one of the directors great aesthetic achievements.

| Mar 28, 2022

I dont think Scorseses made anything with this much joy in it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 24, 2022

Emotional, soulful and one of the five best rock-docs ever made.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 6, 2020

At its best the style of The Last Waltz, at once kaleidoscopic and concentrated, discursive and fixated, distils more about its subject and its times (and about its maker and his obsessions) than the impressionism of cinema verite.

| Mar 31, 2020

Simply one of the best rock docs ever, born of equal parts thunder and fatigue.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 11, 2019

Essential viewing for budding musicians and misty-eyed folks who hark back to a golden era when these rock gods ruled the earth.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2018

The Band's music has such intrinsic strength and resilience that it can't help but break through those self-imposed barriers and set itself and the audience free.

| Jan 8, 2018

Outstanding '70s concert docu has smoking, drinking.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 11, 2017

It might be the best concert film of all time.

| Original Score: A+ | Apr 18, 2013

This 1978 labour of love, one of the most immaculately filmed rock concerts, preserves for posterity the final appearance of the Band, the great group led by Robbie Robertson that had been on the road (often with Bob Dylan) for 16 years.

| Dec 4, 2011

A heady time capsule.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2011

An essential document of American music at its unbeatable best.

| Apr 3, 2011

The filmmaking is superbly controlled yet spontaneously alive.

| Original Score: A+ | May 8, 2010