Name : Jim Farber / Alias : New York Daily News
These unsung heroes are the subject of an illuminating, witty and comprehensive documentary by Denny Tedesco, son of the Crew's inventive guitarist, the late Tommy Tedesco.

Name : Jon Caramanica / Alias : New York Times
Mostly, it's hagiography, with stars like Cher and Brian Wilson used as character witnesses to the players' greatness.

Name : Joe Leydon / Alias : Variety
The unsung heroes who played on stacks of wax during the '60s pop era are celebrated in a hugely entertaining documentary.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Though their story has taken decades to reach the screen, it has been worth the wait.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
With a son's love and duty, Tedesco . breezily celebrates the team that laid down a thousand riffs back just before pop became too serious for anonymous craftsmanship.

Name : Brad Wheeler / Alias : Globe and Mail
The enchanting Kaye - "I was making more money than the President" - probably deserves her own film.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
It'll make you listen to "Good Vibrations," a song you've heard a million times, with fresh ears.

Name : Jon Bream / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
A must-see for liner-note readers.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
With its release held up for seven years because of rights issues, Denny Tedesco's illuminating documentary about the unsung L.A. session musicians who provided the backbeat for some of the greatest songs from the '50s through the '80s can now be seen.

Name : Jim Harrington / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
It can be uncomfortable to pull back the curtain on some of the most beloved rock songs of all time. Yet, it's worth it in order to meet The Wrecking Crew.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
Fascinating .

Name : Ella Taylor / Alias : NPR
The studio musicians rarely got credit on or off the albums. In The Wrecking Crew, Denny Tedesco, whose father was a Wrecking Crew guitarist, rights that wrong.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
"The Wrecking Crew" succeeds as important cultural history. But it's also deeply personal for Tedesco .

Name : Mark Feeney / Alias : Boston Globe
Denny Tedesco's lively and loving documentary takes its title from the name collectively applied to the group of two to three dozen Los Angeles studio musicians who dominated rock and pop recordings there during the 1960s and early '70s.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Long on nostalgia, the film does shed further light on the genius of Brian Wilson and the unfair uproar over the Monkees' need for musical backup. Turns out even the Beach Boys required the Wrecking Crew to rock.

Name : John Anderson / Alias : Newsday
Good-natured look at the virtuoso workhorses of classic rock and pop.