<p>Ang Lee follows up his most recent dramas <em>Brokeback Mountain</em> and <em>Lust Caution</em> with a gentle trip back to 1969 with <em>Taking Woodstock</em>, based on Elliot Tiber's memoir. Tiber, who was helping out at his parents' motel, is played by Demetri Martin while Eugene Levy plays Max Yasgur. The Post's Lou Lumenick <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/08262009/entertainment/movies/dump_this_stock__186569.htm">gives it 1.5 stars</a>, "Taking Woodstock achieves an amazing feat: It turns the fabled music festival, a key cultural moment of the late 20th century, into an exceedingly lame, heavily clichéd, thumb-sucking bore." But the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/taking-woodstock,1156234/critic-review.html#reviewNum1">Wahsington Post's Ann Hornaday</a> writes, "If you stick with this wistful, fitfully funny little trip, you will be rewarded with a movie that makes up in warmth, humanism and self-effacing modesty what it lacks in crackerjack pacing and epic pop-historical grandeur."</p>