You could call it a musical performance documentary and not be wrong, but it's trying to do other things too, some expertly and others not so well; but there's never a point where you quite get a handle on it because it keeps changing in front of your eyes.

Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

This may be one of the few rockumentaries since Stop Making Sense to tap the cinematic potential of sound and vision in a way that feels genuinely collaborative and borderline transcendental.

David Fear

Rolling Stone

Over all, this movie is less “you are there” than “you had to be there.”

Glenn Kenny

The New York Times