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Washington Post
The film is a visually beautiful but clumsily plotted mishmash of "Citizen Kane," "Eddie and the Cruisers" and England's last overblown movie musical, "Absolute Beginners." Full Review
David Edelstein
Slate
Haynes sets out to demonstrate the power of popular music to change people's lives--to tell them it's OK to fashion themselves into anything they please. Full Review
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
One can admire it, but it's hard to get caught up in it. Full Review
Elvis Mitchell
The New York Times
Brilliantly reimagines the glam-rock 70's as a brave new world of electrifying theatricality and sexual possibility, to the point where identifying precise figures in this neo-psychedelic landscape is almost beside the point. Full Review
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
Director Todd Haynes' (Safe) much-anticipated look at the "glam rock" scene of two decades ago, is like a jigsaw puzzle with half of the pieces missing. Full Review
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