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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Directed by
Mat Whitecross
Not Rated
2010
1h 55m
Drama
,
Biography
,
and more
6.5
72%
66%
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A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s.
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Cast of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Andy Serkis
Ian Dury
Tom Hughes
Chaz Jankel
Olivia Williams
Betty Dury
Naomie Harris
Denise
Bill Milner
Baxter Dury
Ray Winstone
Bill Drury
Arthur Darvill
Mick Gallagher
Luke Evans
Clive Richards
Mackenzie Crook
Russell Hardy
Noel Clarke
Desmond
Toby Jones
Hargreaves
Ralph Ineson
The Sulphate Strangler
Charlotte Beaumont
Jemima Dury
Sam Spruell
Kilburns' Drummer
Andrew Knott
Reporter
Poppy Miller
Carer
Michael Maloney
Graham
Chloe Arrowsmith
Girl in bed with The Blockheads Charley (uncredited)
Catherine Balavage
Crazy Drug Girl
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Ratings & Reviews
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Somehow this well-intentioned film cannot help but turn an uncompromisingly original artist into a formula.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Serkis is such a live wire that the supporting actors (Olivia Williams, Naomie Harris, Ray Winstone) can do little but stand back in awe. It's the rare instance where such admiration is earned.
Slant Magazine
Lauren Wissot
A cringe-worthy script chock-full of clichés.
IFC.com
Matt Singer
If only the words I want to use to describe [Andy Serkis'] performance - charismatic, compelling - also applied to the movie around him.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Andy Serkis uncoils a performance of spit, grit and wit so ferocious it only serves to starkly clarify how unremarkable and formulaic the rest of the movie is.
The Hollywood Reporter
Ray Bennett
It's an energetic and vivacious film that will appeal to fans of punk rock worldwide and should find its place in the pantheon of great music-film biographies.
Variety
Leslie Felperin
Paul Viragh's script is too bitty to hold it all together, and filigrees of technique fail to disguise the weaknesses in helmer Mat Whitecross' first solo flight.
PopMatters
David Reyneke
The movie certainly had its moments, but Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll simply fails to take many risks.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Inhabiting the body and soul of legendary pub rocker Ian Dury, human chameleon Andy Serkis single-handedly muscles this by-the-book biopic into the realm of something very special.
CinemaBlend
Cinemablend Staff
Even if nothing in the rest of the film quite matches that opening bravado and skill, it's a perfect opening salvo for a film that, even if it doesn't really know where it's going, has plenty of clever style while getting there.
The Playlist
Rodrigo Perez
A clown-ish rock flick that we'd rather soon forget.
Parallax View
Sean Axmaker
Hides an utterly conventional biopic behind a narrative chopped up into flashbacks, fantasies, animated interludes, music videos and carnivalesque stage shows.
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
I'm sure there was more to the astounding life of Ian Dury, but this picture doesn't submit the nuances, only the juiciest clichés imaginable.
New York Press
Armond White
Wonderful Ian Dury -- England's most endearing punk-era showman -- deserves a biopic worthy of his bouncy, ribald and trenchant songs. The new movie Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll ain't it.
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Sarah Boslaugh
[Serkis is} a revelation as Drury.
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
Dury may have been a colorful figure, and the film is stylishly directed, but it follows the same musical-biopic formula already used in countless other movies.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
...a major performance in a minor film.
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