The Wrecking Crew

...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...

Entertaining, poignant and ridiculously catchy, this tells the story of the band of session musicians whose genius lit up history’s greatest pop music...

...Tedesco nails the point: that the beauty of pop music lies not with the prancing pop starlets, but in the hands of the average-looking, insanely talented artists behind the scenes.

The result is brisk and entertaining...

The filmmakers make a halfhearted attempt at spicing up the visuals by splicing in a few performance clips and soundbites from the era's marquee names (like Brian Wilson, Dick Clark, and Cher)...