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The Filth and the Fury

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United Kingdom, United States · 2000
Rated R · 1h 48m
Director Julien Temple
Starring John Lydon, Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock
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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Boston Globe by

This is a warts 'n' all portrayal - there's no dodging the feelings of both disgust and amusement.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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