"For some, D. A. Pennebaker's pioneering verité account of Bob Dylan's 1965 British tour will be as drenched with perfumey nostalgia as Proust's madeleine. But what's curious about the film is that it seems less dated now than it did (when its) two-year-old footage doted on the uneasy last days of Dylan's pre-electric folkie incarnation....Now (it) takes its historic place as the young Mr. D.'s definitive portrait" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). "If Bob Dylan isn't exactly an 'event' of the sixties, surely he is a felt presence for the decade. Marrying the social impulse of Woody Guthrie to the rhythms of rock-and-roll is only part of his achievement. To look once more at him now, through the direct-cinema prism of Don't Look Back, is to see him navigate the difficult terrain between art and commerce, once again between Woodstock nation and Ticketron, and navigate it he does, with brilliance and not a little arrogance" (Peter Gessner).