24 Hour Party People Critic Reviews

"Print the legend," Mr. Wilson says at one point, both quoting John Ford and laying the foundation for his own often fact-free fabulous fabulism. And this movie is just that -- fabulous.Read the full review

Shines with a kind of inspired madness.Read the full review

Like the music, the film is outspoken, roaringly funny, defiantly sexual and relentlessly in your face. I couldn't have liked it more.Read the full review

Funny, riveting look at the music scene that ruled Manchester, England, from 1976 to 1992.Read the full review

Amazing, rich in authentic period atmosphere and detail, an ever-changing cyclorama of a movie.Read the full review

Just don't expect the truth. An extremely bent, highly amusing form of the truth, maybe, but not the truth. 24 Hour Party People shares with the current Robert Evans documentary ''The Kid Stays in the Picture'' an awareness that a good anecdote often trumps the facts, but here the cheats are cheekily laid bare.Read the full review

The film has a wry, postmodern verisimilitude.Read the full review

A funny, unexpectedly inspiring story of excess, poor choices, and unwavering high-mindedness, all tied to that quintessential bit of rock wisdom: Icarus did fall, but first he flew.Read the full review

A rough, gritty, often scabrously humorous tribute.Read the full review