It’s the music that everyone remembers and the film is a time capsule of pop music and youth culture of the era.

| Jan 7, 2023

What makes the movie of Woodstock a delight to watch is that it had a great subject matter to begin with: the largest crowd of human beings ever assembled in one place in the recorded history of man.

| Jan 7, 2021

[Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music] is an outstanding documentary, a joyful musical experience and a playful artifact of an era, even at its butt-busting length.

| Aug 21, 2019

If there's a better concert documentary out there than Woodstock, I haven't seen it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 15, 2019

... this four-hour expanded Director's Cut edition... wasn't released until 1994. And in this case, more is better and the strained, overwhelming size of the film just seems to mirror the subject itself.

| Feb 5, 2018

Packed to the brim with magnificent music of the rock and pop variety...

| Jan 2, 2017

Those who do appear are good, with some for the ages.

| Feb 16, 2012

A seminal docu on any number of levels, musically, sociologically, and historically, Woodstock is a unique chronicle, at once summing up the zeitgeist and signaling the end of an era; for once Oscar voters were right.

| Original Score: A | Jun 17, 2009

A funky curio that defines the mood and spirit of its time, but which seems dated in many good and bad ways.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2009

If the film isn't the best rock documentary of the best rock concert of all time, it will do until something better comes along.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jun 6, 2009

a dazzling reminder of a simpler, younger time and the brief promise it attained.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 10, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2007

Everyone is there, from Wavy Gravy to Janis.

| Original Score: A+ | Nov 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2005

Wonderful document of its era; music reigns supreme still

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 20, 2004

A fascinating time capsule

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 11, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2002