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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    An exhilarating documentary. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    May be the most intimate documentary ever made about a live rock 'n' roll concert. Certainly it has the best coverage of the performances onstage. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Shine a Light may not be the last Rolling Stones movie, but it's likely to be the last one with a touch of the poet about it. Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    As the director of the documentary Shine a Light, Martin Scorsese is a besotted rock 'n' roll fan who wholeheartedly embraces its mythology. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today |

    The genius of Scorsese's film, which is being shown in IMAX in 93 theaters, is that it reveals the Stones' mortality while celebrating all that makes them more than mere mortals. Read full review

  • 88
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    This you-are-there spellbinder is a master director shining his light on the best rock band on the planet. Read full review

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    In Shine a Light, a crackling concert movie directed by Martin Scorsese, the Rolling Stones are now so old that they seem new again. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Vibrant and engaging documentary. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Martin Scorsese's energetic account of a Stones concert at Gotham's Beacon Theater in fall 2006 takes full advantage of heavy camera coverage and top-notch sound to create an invigorating musical trip down memory lane, as well as to provoke gentle musings on the wages of aging and the passage of time. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    The film does not stand up to the current crop of music/concert films like "U2 3D," which brilliantly uses 3-D to show the Irish band in concert so as to encapsulate its relationship to its fans, each other and their own music, and "CSNY: Deja Vu," which hones in on the political connection Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have to their music. Read full review

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