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Fearless Freaks (2005)

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Average Rating: 7.7/10
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If The Flaming Lips have had an accidental career, then this documentary is indeed an accident as well. After combing through 400 hours of footage, The Fearless Freaks is at last fully realized.

May 17, 2005

Shout! Factory

All Critics (14) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (0) | DVD (2)

Will please devotees without attracting many, if any, new converts.

May 27, 2005 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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Wildly entertaining.

May 26, 2005 Comment
Detroit Free Press
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So darn watchable that it could turn someone who never heard of the Flaming Lips into a devoted fan.

May 25, 2005 Comment
New York Post
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Bradley Beesley's intimate documentary traces the two-decade career of the Flaming Lips, a seminal art-rock band from Oklahoma City.

May 25, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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As artfully scrappy and likably wide-eyed as its subjects.

May 24, 2005 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
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Cobbles together an appropriately whacked-out portrait of the band's surreal and haphazard career trajectory.

April 29, 2005 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
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Having been involved in helping the band craft its decidedly bizarre visual imagery for so much of its history, Beesley's film is perfectly in sync with the Lips' unique vision.

May 27, 2005 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
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What really fuels the movie, however -- aside from the constant, buoyant presence of the band's leader, Wayne Coyne -- is its warts-and-all approach.

May 27, 2005 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comment
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Beesley could have made just a fan movie... but here we get much more.

April 29, 2005 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
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Ripe with offbeat Americana, Beesley's rockumentary is also a portrait of growing up in a white-trash Okie ghetto.

April 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Comment
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I wish Wayne Cohn lived in my neighborhood.

August 12, 2007
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Tim Sigur

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See this even if you don't know much about The Flaming Lips. We could all learn a thing or two about the art of performance.

March 20, 2007
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