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3.0
As a eulogy for a dead format, you couldnt ask for much more than this.
Indie Wire
4.5
Rewind This! is a charmer of a documentary that will strike a chord with audiences who have grown up with the format.
Screen Daily
4.5
Lively history makes some good observations about video and the culture it enabled.
The Hollywood Reporter
4.5
Austin based filmmaker Josh Johnson pays sweet homage to a video format that shook up the film world and changed the way people watched movies with to ..
3.4
Rewind This! is somewhat lacking in big name first hand accounts. But where the film is on firmer territory is in championing those lovers of the form ..
IGN
2.0
Moviegoing isnt something theyre practiced in, only consumption, brought on by an industry revolution that brought practically everything out on the f ..
Blu Ray
4.5
doesnt deny the more inherent flaws of the VHS format and the big boom in the eighties, though.
Cinema Crazed
4.5
The film is elevated above the average these are a few of my favourite things documentary by its willingness to take on larger narratives around the s ..
Eye For Film
3.0
justifiably anoints the videocassette as a cinematic invention as important as film itself.
The Film Stage
3.0
Rewind This! is both a history lesson and love letter to a format which should prove to be a must see for all cinephiles that came of age during the V ..
Blogs Indie Wire
4.4
Perhaps the best compliment I can pay the film is to say that it made me want to go down in my basement and dig through all those old VHS tapes that I ..
Aisle Seat
3.5
gravitates toward the scuzzier recesses of cinema history, putting a major emphasis on the packaging of low budget videocassettes.
The Dissolve
3.5
Rewind This! didnt delve into every corner of VHS I might have wished, but it introduced plenty Id never thought of.
Crave Online
3.5
This unabashedly nostalgic doc serves as a potent reminder of VHS pivotal role in the history of entertainment, even if weve all moved on now. Well, m ..
What Culture
5.0
Johnsons savvy authority ensures that Rewind This! will leave many film and video lovers begging for more.
Seattle Times
4.0
Its an incredibly fun doco that delivers the perfect hit of nostalgia for generation VHS while educating the uninitiated on an important part of pop c ..
The Popcorn Junkie
3.5
A truly fun and often enlightening trip down memory lane, Rewind This!
Daily Dead
3.5
The home video revolution touched every living person, even if they dont realize it.
Film International
4.5
a fascinating, funny and focused journey through our recent and rapidly changing cultural memory, lest we forget.
Grolsch Film Works
0.5
Theres nary a trace of ironic detachment or condescension here, which is exceedingly rare for any depiction of geek culture.
La Weekly
2.0
Johnson has created a movie that mostly kept me riveted and highly entertained.
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