Critic Reviews

• Glenn Gamboa, Newsday

  Mick Jagger and Keith Richards aren't afraid to keep it real. Both show some interesting insights into their success, with Jagger revealing how he portrays a different character for each of the band's singles.

• Leslie Felperin, Variety

  This tribute to the Rolling Stones offers a blizzard of archive material nimbly sutured together with interviews with the Stones themselves, making this a succinct, officially sanctioned but not necessarily fawning history of the band.

• David Hinckley, New York Daily News

  Crossfire Hurricane, a new documentary on the first 15 years of the Rolling Stones, has passages where it lives up to the title's promise. It has other passages where it's more like a mild breeze.

• Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times

  he music, at least, has remained unruly. They may be an institution, but they remain just crummy enough to keep from ever seeming slick.

• David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle

  Hurricane is a whirling impressionistic painting of the band, beautifully conveying the energy, drive and genius of the Stones, more or less chronologically within the basic flashback structure.

• Matthew Gilbert, Boston Globe

  You can almost track the arc of the Stones by studying how Jagger's face evolves over the course of the movie.

• Rebecca Barry, Flicks.co.nz

  Hammers home [the Stones'] amazing, timeless appeal.

• Alan Sepinwall, HitFix

  If Crossfire Hurricane doesn't offer much that's new, or tell a spellbinding story along the way, it still vividly captures how they became legends in the first place.

• Troy Patterson, Slate

  It was my pleasure, as an intermediate-level Stones buff, to see that director Brett Morgen has put together something reeking of astringent danger.

• Keith Phipps, AV Club

  Of the many sources from which someone might learn about the Rolling Stones it's better than most.

• Jack Jones, Little White Lies

  Stones completists may feel sated, but the idly inquisitive would do best to steer clear.

• Emma Simmonds, The List

  Ultimately, by focusing on energetically edited footage of Stones at their musical peak, Morgen has made an immersive documentary that thoroughly entertains yet neglects to sufficiently enlighten.

• Ed Gibbs, Empire Magazine Australasia

  Nothing terribly new, but great fun, all the same. Morgan has assembled a hugely enjoyable, tightly edited journey through the Stones' creative heyday.

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