A Mighty Wind Reviews

A Mighty Wind Review
by John Ulmer (Rating: 3.5/5)
You may remember Christopher Guest from "This is Spinal Tap." You may also remember him as the six-fingered man in "The Princess Bride." Both were Rob Reiner films, but with 1996's "Waiting for Guffman," he created his own post-"Spinal...more

A Mighty Wind Review
by Andrew Staker
Director and co-writer Christopher Guest and co-writer Eugene Levy take the audience on a folksong magical mystery tour. Done in the hilarious style of Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman, the ensemble cast manage to deliver a delicious film seething...more

A Mighty Wind Review
by Jerry Saravia (Rating: 3/4)
Christopher Guest's "A Mighty Wind" is unlike any other movie I have seen, or at least since the last Christopher Guest film. It is his latest mockumentary, and his subject this time is of 60's folk singers trying to recapture their magic to an audience....more

A Mighty Wind Review
by Dennis Schwartz (Rating: B+)
A MIGHTY WIND (director/writer: Christopher Guest; screenwriter: Eugene Levy; cinematographer: Arlene Donnelly Nelson; editor: Robert Leighton; music: C.J. Vanston; cast: Bob Balaban (Jonathan Steinbloom), Christopher Guest (Alan Barrows), Catherine...more

A Mighty Wind Review
by Shannon Patrick Sullivan (Rating: 2.5/4)
Directed by Christopher Guest. Screenplay by Guest and Eugene Levy. Starring Bob Balaban, Levy, Catherine O'Hara. Running time: 91 minutes. Rated PG by the MFCB. Reviewed on May 17th, 2003. more

A Mighty Wind Review
by Jonathan F. Richards
It's a legitimate question how many more cocktails Chris Guest can pour from this particular shaker. But for now, the drink still has its zip, and the party seems far from over. more

A Mighty Wind Review
by Karina Montgomery (Rating: 4.5/5)
Did you love Best in Show or Waiting for Guffman? If so, then go see A Mighty Wind, there is nothing I need further to tell you. Directed by Christopher Guest and written by Guest and Eugene Levy (as much as a wholly improvised movie is written),...more

A Mighty Wind Review
by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: B+)
Grade:B+ Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Warner Bros./Castle Rock Directed by: Christopher Guest Written by: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy Cast: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Bob Balaban, Parker Posey, Ed...more

A Mighty Wind Review
by Susan Granger (Rating: 7/10)
Susan Granger's review of "A Mighty Wind" (Warner Bros.) Writer/director/actor Christopher Guest has devised his own specific cinematic genre: the mockumentary. With its spontaneous, improvised dialogue, the mockumentary does have a basic...more

A Mighty Wind Review
by Robin Clifford (Rating: B+)
When the legendary folk music promoter Irving Steinbloom passed away his son, Jonathan (Bob Balaban), decides that he must organize a fitting memorial for the great man. With only a two week window to stage the show at New York's The Town Hall, Jonathan...more

A Mighty Wind Review
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3/4)
The king of the mockumentary world, director Christopher Guest (BEST IN SHOW and WAITING FOR GUFFMAN), is back to delight us with another of his pseudo-serious non-documentaries. In A MIGHTY WIND, he's out to skewer the old folk music world so popular...more
A Mighty Wind Review
by Laura Clifford (Rating: B)
When Irving Steinbloom, a trailblazing folk music producer, passes on his son Jonathan (Bob Balaban, "Best in Show") sets about gathering his father's most famous acts, the Folksmen, the Main St. Singers and the long estranged Mitch and Mickey for a...more