100
Film.com
Keeps you engaged in this story of a memorable anti-hero for our times.
Trainspotting
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- United Kingdom
- 1996
- · 94m
Director
Danny Boyle
Cast
Ewan McGregor,
Ewen Bremner,
Jonny Lee Miller,
Robert Carlyle,
Kelly Macdonald,
Kevin McKidd
Genre
Drama,
Crime
Mark Renton is completely enmeshed in the Edinburgh drug scene; his friends are junkies, and the one friend who hasn't tried heroin yet is very curious. So when he decides to kick his habit and go clean, it affects all his relationships. Can he make it out, without heroin in his life at all?
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What are critics saying?
100
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
Heroin may be a downer, but Trainspotting definitely takes you up…a series of roaring, provocative, outrageous highs. [26 July 1996, Friday, p.C]
100
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
It would be hard to imagine a movie about drugs, depravity, and all-around bad behavior more electrifying than Trainspotting.
100
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
Trainspotting is supercharged with sulphurous humour and brutal recklessness.
100
Slate by Michael Wood
A desolate, fast, funny, scary film, and it takes more risks than any recent film.
100
Salon by Charles Taylor
The most original, daring, thrilling movie to be released this year, Trainspotting is one of those occasional, astonishing triumphs of risk and imagination that gets you excited about what smart people, pushing themselves and the medium, can accomplish in the movies.
100
San Francisco Examiner by Barry Walters
Extraordinary, entertaining cinema.
100
Film.com by Shannon Gee
Keeps you engaged in this story of a memorable anti-hero for our times.
90
TNT RoughCut
Irresistibly bleak appeal.
90
Time by Richard Corliss
The film is about joy--in conniving and surviving, in connecting with audiences, in its own fizzy, jizzy style.
90
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
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.
90
TNT RoughCut by Jason Puskar
Irresistibly bleak appeal.
87
Mr. Showbiz by F. X. Feeney
It's a disturbing film in the best sense.
80
Newsweek
Artfully ambivalent, Danny Boyle's film, twists with a junkie's logic. It does not preach; it wallows in the pain and, more daringly, in the pleasure.
80
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
A must-see.
80
Film.com by John Hartl
Ewan McGregor in a raw, funny, star-making performance.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
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).
70
TV Guide Magazine by Frank Lovece
Captures the way drug addiction gives structure and purpose to aimless lives, and evokes the breathtaking rapture of a fix. All this and a happy ending, too.
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