NYTimes Review of LST

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/movies/grateful-dead-long-strange-tri...

"The film is passionate, impressionistic and encyclopedic, but one thing it is not, even at its exhaustive length, is a by-the-numbers telling of the band’s 30-year hippie-pirate soap opera. That, Mr. Bar-Lev says, is “one of the reasons why most music documentaries are lame — they seek that exhaustive, plodding chronology.” His film, he said, is not a history lesson. “It’s supposed to work as a film to evoke the Grateful Dead. Then once you’re indoctrinated into the cult, you can find all the albums I didn’t talk about.”"