United Kingdom · 2018
1h 45m
Director Daniel Gill
Starring Freya Mavor, Josh Whitehouse, Ian Hart, Tom Riley
Genre Romance, Music
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Brought together by their shared love of music, ten years on Liam and Natalie are at breaking point. In their case opposites attract but don't necessarily work long-term. Making the difficult decision to separate, they must split their prized music library. But the soundtrack that defined their relationship keeps pulling them back together.
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
Britpop is a musical genre I had neutral feelings toward before sitting through Modern Life Is Rubbish, a uselessly nostalgic movie named after Blur’s 1993 album. After it, I wondered whether I had been too generous.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
It is full of the signifiers of musical devotion but lacks the hummably acerbic insight of the best music it namechecks.
Los Angeles Times by Noel Murray
As the name suggests, Modern Life Is Rubbish romanticizes analog relationships — and is meant for anyone who does the same.
Village Voice by Tatiana Craine
For those who delight in candy-coated nostalgia, writer Philip Gawthorne’s familiar, cliché-heavy script offers a twee jaunt down memory lane. For everyone else, even a killer Britpop soundtrack teamed with the leads’ palpable chemistry can’t save the film from overtrodden territory.