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It'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.Full Review

Ray Bennett
The Hollywood Reporter

Musical 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.Full Review

Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

Paul 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.Full Review

Variety

Its flashes of style are sometimes lively but more often seem, like the slavish period dcor, to be desperate attempts to overcome the built-in inertia of the genre.Full Review

A.O. Scott
The New York Times

A 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.Full Review

Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
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