Neil Young: Heart of Gold: Critic Reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

75

Young, wizened yet valiant, his voice still braying at the moon, delivers these songs of aging and loss as if caught in a beautiful dream of what lies waiting for him on the other side.
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Manohla Dargis New York Times (Top Critic)

80

Jonathan Demme's concert film captures Neil Young in a ruminative state of mind at Nashville's storied Ryman Auditorium, original home of the Grand Ole Opry.
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Andrew Pulver Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

60

Pleasant, but hardly pulse-quickening stuff.
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Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

100

The mesmerizing, heart-tugging concert film Heart of Gold confirms Neil Young's stature as a national treasure.
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Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

Director Demme is smart and sensitive enough to sit back and listen to the music without attention-getting intrusions.
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Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

88

Heart of Gold -- filmed in much the same manner [as Stop Making Sense], with pristine sound and a notable lack of audience shots -- is a deeper and infinitely more touching piece of work.
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Tom Charity Village Voice (Top Critic)

It's a sentimental show, sure, but Young's pantheistic hymns to family, friendship, and 'the time we share together' are nothing if not heartfelt. Turns out it's better to fade away after all.
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Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News (Top Critic)

75

Dropping in amusing anecdotes and tender memories, a deeply reflective Young revisits -- and often reinterprets -- both his recent and classic work.
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Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

50

Some defiant rockers are forever young. This one is in name only.
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Chris Vognar Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

84

Few artists are so adept at addressing the past and embracing the future all at once. And few recent films have so gracefully captured a musician at a specific point in his time.
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Lisa Kennedy Denver Post (Top Critic)

75

Like its troubadour, Heart of Gold is smart and generous with its seeming simplicity.
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David Edelstein New York Magazine (Top Critic)

The best moments in the film are when Ellen Kuras's camera just sits there taking in the whole stage, the whole gorgeous ecosystem.
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David Denby New Yorker (Top Critic)

One might call Neil Young: Heart of Gold soothing, even becalmed, but mellowness and ripeness, when they exist at this high level of craft, should have their season, too.
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Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

88

Heart of Gold is the work of an egalitarian lover of music. Demme uses the camera as a divining rod, pointing at the man with the guitar.
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Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

100

It's movie and music bliss.
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Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

63

It will be hard for any Young devotee not to succumb to the music, as Demme turns the movie theater into a concert hall.
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Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

92

Neil Young: Heart of Gold is one of the best live concert films ever made. If you like Neil Young, that is.
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Larry Rodgers Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

80

When it comes to pop-music icons, Neil Young is the full package.
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Robert Koehler Variety (Top Critic)

The concert film has never looked or sounded classier than Jonathan Demme's superbly crafted Neil Young: Heart of Gold.
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Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

50

A schmaltzy filmed record of a Nashville concert given by the legendary former rocker, who has morphed into the new Kenny Rogers.
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Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

60

This Prairie Wind concert is one long sweet twang of wistful not-quite-regret.
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Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

100

A film that is both a celebration and a wistful look back.
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Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com (Top Critic)

A love letter to the consistency, and the familiarity, of that voice.
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Duane Byrge Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

This smart, aesthetically understated concert film from Jonathan Demme will transport Young's legions of baby boomer fans back to the future, as 1969 re-invents itself in 2005 for Young.
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Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

88

This is more than a movie, it's a privilege.
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