Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 3
Visceral, energetic, and often very sad, Sid & Nancy is also a surprisingly touching love story, and Gary Oldman is outstanding as the late punk rock icon Sid Vicious.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 1
Visceral, energetic, and often very sad, Sid & Nancy is also a surprisingly touching love story, and Gary Oldman is outstanding as the late punk rock icon Sid Vicious.
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Punk rock's first great embodiment of the motto "live fast and die young," Sid Vicious joined The Sex Pistols when they were already established as the most controversial rock band in British history; and it soon became apparent that he couldn't play his instrument, had a magnetic attraction to chaos, and possessed a dangerous thirst for booze, drugs, and violence. Sid & Nancy opens shortly after Sid (Gary Oldman) joined the band, when he meets an obnoxious American punk groupie named Nancy
Aug 29, 1986 Wide
Dec 19, 2000
New Line Cinema
All Critics (35) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (3) | DVD (17)
Sid and Nancy is the definitive pic on the punk phenomenon.
A few too many moralistic foreshadowings, but most of the time Cox's situations and characters develop on their own eloquently entropic terms.
It's not every film maker who credits special thanks to both Luis Bunuel and Dee Dee Ramone, but then Mr. Cox doesn't fit any recognizable mold.
[Cox] and his actors pull off the neat trick of creating a movie full of noise and fury, and telling a meticulous story right in the middle of it.
The only thing that is sustained in Sid and Nancy is a tone of clinical disinterest that leaves you asking why Cox would want to make a movie about them.
Though dark and harrowing, explicit and unsparing, the movie proves a riveting biography of these burnt-out icons and their iconoclastic half-decade.
The Blu-ray upgrade of Alex Cox's Sid & Nancy is an audiovisual improvement over earlier DVD editions, but far more effort could have been put into assembling a satisfactory assortment of extras.
Oldman's mid-film music-video performance of 'My Way' before a neon staircase compares favorably-as a revelation of character through performance-to Robert De Niro's framing monologues in Raging Bull. [Blu-ray]
Forget Jack and Rose; forget Doctor Zhivago and Larissa; forget Lady and the Tramp. This love story between Sid and Nancy is one of the most fascinating ones you'll ever see.
...the ultimate punk rock movie,brilliantly crafted, cinematic magic.
The film's crowning achievement is depicting the soul-sucking toll that drugs take on the talented and the naive. Eventually, drugs replace the people they were, and they turn into mere vessels to an all-consuming craving. They become their addiction.
Despite the downward spiral of these two lives, the film never loses its drive or passion; it never wallows in the misery.
Like Sid, this is flawed but fascinating.
Why then should anyone of sane disposition wish to see the film? Because it is still a love story, and a very touching one at that.
Alex Cox's best film by far.
A kick-your-teeth-in salute to Punkdom's self-immolating First Couple.
An amazing movie
The performances of Oldman and Webb, both stage-trained veterans, are simply astonishing.
An amazing ride through the short life of the Sex Pistols and Sid Vicious featuring Gary Oldman in one of the best performances I've seen.
October 30, 2011Super Reviewer
Most biopics of this era focus on the gritty disgust of self hatred and consequential drug use, but also feature the glamour and intrigue of being the most lusted for in an age of overindulgence and greed. In punk rock, there is already elements of grit fused with being rebellious and disorderly, glamour the farthest
October 14, 2010Super Reviewer
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