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Critics' Reviews

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
When C-Diddy (a.k.a. David Jung), in his samurai superman suit, does his note-perfect, lip-twisting, belly-jiggling manic mime of Extreme's ''Play With Me,'' it's hard not to grin and admit that, yes, this is almost an art form.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Rob Nelson
My long strums are pretty f---ing tight," gushes one faux-ax-stroker in this slick, hilarious, and at times even suspenseful ode to competitive mock-rock and/or the further decline of Western civ.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
I don't know whether to call it interpretive dance for dudes or performance art or just a highly developed form of wanking. Who cares? It seriously rocks.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
The nutty thing is, by the end of this jolly, oddly compelling and genuinely suspenseful documentary, the ridiculousness of such notions seems open to genuine debate.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Crust
It's one of the charms of Air Guitar Nation that much of it plays like a mockumentary in which you're not quite sure who's pulling your leg. But it's real, even if the guitars are not.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Matt Zoller Seitz
The movie's wild performances and droll humor are tough to resist.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Janice Page
A semiserious documentary about a cult of performance art that until recently was never meant to be taken seriously.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Documentarian Alexandra Lipsitz believes that air-guitar competitions are worth a whole feature-length movie. She's wrong, of course. But the fun lasts longer than you might think.Read Full Review »
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