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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettIt's an energetic and vivacious film that will appeal to fans of punk rock worldwide and should find its place in the pantheon of great music-film biographies.
- 80New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanMusical biopics usually replicate a star's rise and fall in depressingly predictable fashion. Hurray, then, for Mat Whitecross and his vibrantly eclectic take on what should feel like the same old story.
- 60EmpireEmpireA sometimes whimsical and magical take on the life of one of Britain’s most artistically charged rock stars. Serkis shines in his role as the troubled singer.
- 50VarietyVarietyPaul Viragh's script is too bitty to hold it all together, and filigrees of technique fail to disguise the weaknesses in helmer Mat Whitecross' first solo flight.
- 50The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottIts flashes of style are sometimes lively but more often seem, like the slavish period décor, to be desperate attempts to overcome the built-in inertia of the genre.
- 50Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleA new biopic of eccentric British rock legend Ian Dury, Andy Serkis uncoils a performance of spit, grit and wit so ferocious it only serves to starkly clarify how unremarkable and formulaic the rest of the movie is.