Trainspotting Critic Reviews

A desolate, fast, funny, scary film, and it takes more risks than any recent film.Read the full review

It would be hard to imagine a movie about drugs, depravity, and all-around bad behavior more electrifying than Trainspotting.Read the full review

Scabrous, brutal and hip, Trainspotting is a "Clockwork Orange" for the '90s.Read the full review

Exuberant and pitiless, profane yet eloquent, flush with the ability to create laughter out of unspeakable situations, Trainspotting is a drop-dead look at a dead-end lifestyle that has all the strength of its considerable contradictions.Read the full review

A movie that rudely flings feces at the breakfast table isn't for everyone.Read the full review

There's nothing new or unique about the story, but it is presented in a manner that reinforces its immediacy and impact.Read the full review

The stylish irreverence of Trainspotting mimics that drug high and delivers its own potent kick.Read the full review

It uses a colorful vocabulary, it contains a lot of energy, it elevates its miserable heroes to the status of icons (in their own eyes, that is).Read the full review

Darkly comic tone of heroin-addiction film sets it apartRead the full review