The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

firstly i'm a huge wilco fan and therefore was always going to like this, even if it was directed by michael bay and shot on a ninety eighties camcorder. It has fantastic footage that allows you to get into the 'wilco world' and generally made me very jealous.however i don't believe sam jones has any clout as a film maker. The biggest flaw seems to be that it doesn't get what yankee hotel foxtrot really is as an album. Even in the commentary Jeff Tweedy shows his surprise at jones' inclusion of live versions of songs from earlier albums like 'being there'.The big problem is that the album clearly changed a great deal after mr bennett left the band and jim o rourke turned a collection of good and slightly less than good rock songs into a ground-breaking piece of rock and roll. O rourke made the album great, hearing the versions that were painstakingly put together before Jim came on board proves this and yet Jones failed to make him a central part of the doc, relagated him to one joint interview with Jeff Tweedy when he says nothing.Unfortunately this film only tells half the story and therefore feels half-finished and padded out with lots of material that could have been put on the, already very healthy, special features discs. Having said all this it is still worth watching but not worth worshipping, a bit like yankee hotel foxtrot (unless you're listening to it on vinyl of course!).

Director Sam Jones follows the band Wilco as they record their fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Along the way, original member Jay Bennett is fired, and the band are dropped by Reprise Records. With their completed album in hand, they are forced to shop it around to other labels for almost another year. This is a close-up view of a group of highly talented and creative people in the crucible, being ground down by the business side of the music industry, even as they are making the most ambitious music of their lives.

This is a movie about the making of a unique piece of music; an album which is already legendary for the wilderness of idiocy it traveled through on its way to release.To keep this brief, the movie contains great out-takes from the album as well as an interesting picture of how a recording band acts. But also, the film lacks any real organization and it's as if the director assumed the viewer was already aware of the events around "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," because he focused much more on the story of Jeff Tweedy making music. But criticism aside, it's a very interesting movie. And I don't know what Alex- 105 meant by Jay "just being fired" because that was one of the most elaborated upon points in the movie. Remember, Alex? The ten minute scene where Jay won't drop the fact that Jeff wasn't specific about a drum loop and Jeff ends up vomiting because of all the stress. I'd say most people saw the firing coming.

I really had a great time seeing this. Although I have to admit that I am biased toward Wilco as a big fan. Would've have liked to see more interaction between members of the band. Didn't see enough of Glenn and John. Jay did a good job of making himself look bad. The scene where they are mixing Heavy Metal Drummer is very telling. Leroy seemed to take a little too much pleasure in seeing him leave though. It was kind of sad. Jeff with the reporters is priceless, and the comedian is hysterical...took me a second to realize he wasn't for real in the interview with Jeff. Liked David Fricke's comments.I did feel like there was a little too much hero worship of the band. I would have liked to have seen more from the record company's point of view. They are definitely demonized, as they probably should be, but I'm sure Jeff's no saint. There's always two sides to a story. I must say I'm glad they didn't compromise as the album is phenomenal, and it is nice to see the little guy beat the big guy occasionally, even if he has to use another big guy who's part of the same label...a little ironic, but legitimate as they are a big guy willing to risk it on the quality they perceive to be there. I don't know how the money breaks down, but if some of it gets back to Warner, they're probably laughing as much as Wilco is. All the bad press about them and the good press about Wilco sells albums, so they don't exactly lose. Still, one would love to see labels choose more quality acts and this stands out as a quality act getting their due.Very enjoyable to watch even with it's deficits...I recommend for all music lovers.