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.Read Full Review »
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Slate: Michael Wood
A desolate, fast, funny, scary film, and it takes more risks than any recent film.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
It would be hard to imagine a movie about drugs, depravity, and all-around bad behavior more electrifying than Trainspotting.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: 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.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
The film is about joy--in conniving and surviving, in connecting with audiences, in its own fizzy, jizzy style.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
A movie that rudely flings feces at the breakfast table isn't for everyone.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
There's nothing new or unique about the story, but it is presented in a manner that reinforces its immediacy and impact.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: John Leland
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.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
The stylish irreverence of Trainspotting mimics that drug high and delivers its own potent kick.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: 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).Read Full Review »
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