this is Robbie Robertson's movie, his version of the story, and if you want to know more about what Levon and Richard and Rick and Garth thought about any of it, that's simply not a load Daniel Roher and his film are interested in carrying
the story of the rise and disintegration of the Band turns out to be as compelling as its spectacular music, and it's good to have the tale told and the group's formidable sounds heard one more time, in the documentary "Once Were Brothers"
even at its most painful, the Band's story captures something golden, incendiary and wistfully beautiful - "so beautiful," Robbie Robertson reflects, "that it went up in flames."
"Once Were Brothers" centers on Robertson, one of the Band's two surviving original members (along with the keyboardist-saxophonist Garth Hudson), and it is a good primer on the group's formation, influences and rise
by Joel Selvin [San Fransisco Chronicle ]
by Ann Hornaday [Washington Post ]
