Like the music, the film is outspoken, roaringly funny, defiantly sexual and relentlessly in your face. I couldn't have liked it more.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
"Print the legend," Mr. Wilson says at one point, both quoting John Ford and laying the foundation for his own often fact-free fabulous fabulism. And this movie is just that -- fabulous.Read Full Review »
This dizzying saga of the '80s Manchester music scene is garish, reckless, endlessly self-indulgent and totally untrustworthy. What a blast!Read Full Review »
90
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
Amazing, rich in authentic period atmosphere and detail, an ever-changing cyclorama of a movie.Read Full Review »
88
Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Just don't expect the truth. An extremely bent, highly amusing form of the truth, maybe, but not the truth. 24 Hour Party People shares with the current Robert Evans documentary ''The Kid Stays in the Picture'' an awareness that a good anecdote often trumps the facts, but here the cheats are cheekily laid bare.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Hopped-up and electrifying. The soundtrack is wall-to-wall and propulsive.Read Full Review »
The manic swirl of characters (most speaking in thick Northern accents that are sometimes muffled and incomprehensible) may leave you exhausted and confused.Read Full Review »
70
Village Voice: Dennis Lim
As a historical document, 24 Hour Party People may be most meaningful to fans whose epiphanies were experienced at least one remove away -- at a different place or time.Read Full Review »
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