Critic Reviews

A superb portrait of a band and an industry in flux.

In the last two decades rock documentaries have become ubiquitous on TV but marginalized as cinema; this is the rare exception that earns its place on the big screen.

This picture is jagged and exciting; it tells several plots imperfectly, yet makes them add up to a great American story about integrity challenged and triumphant.

Tells Wilco's story so well that you'll leave the theater thinking the album is a work of genius.

An exciting and involving rock music doc, a smart and satisfying look inside that tumultuous world.

A photographer for magazines like Vanity Fair and GQ, as well as a veteran director of commercials, Mr. Jones brings a trained eye to this, his first documentary. The low gray skies of Chicago prove once again to be a boon to photography, and the city has seldom looked better than it does here, in its chilly, minimalist beauty.

It testifies to art's vitality and endurance, despite its marketers' -- and sometimes even its makers' -- efforts to the contrary.

Much to cheer here, from its treasure trove of early and alternate versions of songs to the triumphant finale.

A modest vérité portrait of Wilco, the engagingly melodious, deeply unglam alt-folk rockers.

The film perpetuates a self-congratulatory vision of the record's worth, when an opposing point of view would have provided a more balanced perspective.