100
Film.com by Peter Brunette
Temple's wonderfully entertaining film brings the era back in all its confused and tentatively revolutionary glory, and bracingly demonstrates that the Pistols still have the power to shock.
The Filth and the Fury
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- United Kingdom,
- United States
- 2000
- · 108m
Director
Julien Temple
Cast
John Lydon,
Steve Jones,
Paul Cook,
Glen Matlock,
Sid Vicious,
Malcolm McLaren
Genre
Documentary,
Music
A documentary profile of the Sex Pistols, featuring archival footage, new performances, rehearsals, recording sessions, and interviews as director Julien Temple takes you back in time to the genesis of the punk movement, tracing its lineage starting with this legendary group.
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What are critics saying?
100
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
A great, searching, incendiary chronicle of the Sex Pistols, the razor-hearted visionaries of punk anarchy.
90
Salon by Bill Wyman
A kinetic and unstoppable ride.
90
Dallas Observer by Gregory Weinkauf
A big gob of fun.
90
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
A kickass documentary.
89
Austin Chronicle by Russell Smith
Anyone who can watch this film and deny that the Sex Pistols were one of the four or five most exciting and indelibly brilliant rock groups ever is pumping formaldehyde, not blood, through his veins.
88
Boston Globe
This is a warts 'n' all portrayal - there's no dodging the feelings of both disgust and amusement.
88
San Francisco Examiner by Wesley Morris
If nothing else, The Filth and the Fury is a searing, forceful, entertainingly biased reminder only that the English group mattered - as musicians and as anti-social curs.
88
New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
This bizarre, original and brilliantly crafted documentary about the Sex Pistols is funny and at times moving -- despite all the ugliness and stupidity it depicts.
88
Chicago Tribune by John Petrakis
The concerts are hypnotic, the music is swell, and the entire package moves along at just the right pace.
88
Boston Globe by Jim Sullivan
This is a warts 'n' all portrayal - there's no dodging the feelings of both disgust and amusement.
80
TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox
This loud and exhilarating documentary from director Julien Temple brings it all back in a vitriolic spray of spite, spittle and raw rock and roll that still hits like a heart attack.
80
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
Electrifying.
75
USA Today by Mike Clark
Irritates in the early going when many of the current-day interviews are so intentionally underlighted that we can't see what the group members look like.
70
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
A film as arresting and at times as frustrating as the Pistols themselves.
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