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- 75New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickPerhaps the most fascinating vintage footage...depicts what happened in 1961 when the city sent police into Washington Square Park to stop the longtime Sunday practice of singing without a required permit.
- 70The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenEvokes the flavor of the era just before the music business exploded into a mass-market juggernaut. The film's pleasures are the same ones offered by a sprawling, lavishly illustrated magazine spread.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeA history lesson that holds some pleasures even for those who know its material by heart.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyA most enjoyable flashback. Laura Archibald's documentary about Ground Zero for the 1960s folk explosion -- and its enormous influence on the shape of rock music to come -- isn't assembled in a particularly distinctive manner, but the materials and voices culled offer more than enough reward in themselves.
- 38Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenDirector Laura Archibald's approach is fatally safe, often turning poets into self-congratulatory windbags.