The Public Image Is Rotten

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Movie Info

British rock icon John Lydon and his fellow bandmates recall the years they spent performing as Public Image Ltd.

Genre:

music, documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Tabbert Fiiller
Producer:

Tyler Brodie, Tabbert Fiiller, Hunter Gray, Phaedon A. Papadopoulos
Release Date (Theaters):

Sep 14, 2018 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Oct 25, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA):

$11.3K
Runtime:

1h 43m

Cast & Crew

John Lydon
Self

Martin Atkins
Self

Jah Wobble
Self

Tabbert Fiiller
Director

Tyler Brodie
Producer

Tabbert Fiiller
Producer

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Critic Reviews for The Public Image Is Rotten

All Critics (16) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (6)

The Public Image Is Rotten is a documentary that serves its potential audience well.

October 29, 2018 | Full Review…

Owen Gleiberman
Variety
Watchable and intermittently entertaining, if hardly incisive, and slightly over-long at 105 minutes, The Public Image Is Rotten includes much that will be of interest only to devotees.

September 27, 2018 | Full Review…

Jonathan Romney
Film Comment Magazine
Diehard fans may enjoy The Public Image is Rotten, but there's not a lot here that they-or even adventurous newbies-can't get more of elsewhere.

September 14, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Simon Abrams
RogerEbert.com
Even if you've scratched your head over Mr. Lydon's TV ad work and other efforts to maintain a professional life in recent years, this affectionate and frank movie can elicit newfound admiration for a slightly mellowed iconoclast.

September 13, 2018 | Full Review…

Glenn Kenny
New York Times
Archival footage of Lydon in the bracing hostility of his youth contrasts dramatically with present-day interviews showing him domesticated, compromised, and happy in the wisdom that most of us learn to accept as compensation.

November 9, 2017 | Full Review…

J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
John Lydon's post-Sex Pistols career is examined in this intimate doc that proves as frustrating as it is fascinating.

April 29, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Ed Gibbs
Little White Lies
[The Public Image is Rotten] makes one wonder: Does anyone still care?

January 17, 2019 | Full Review…

Ren Jender
Miami New Times
This documentary, directed by Tabbert Fiiller... features the good fun of Lydon's raconteur rants and his willingness to always up-end expectations.

November 2, 2018 | Full Review…

Armond White
National Review
The Public Image is Rotten gives John Lydon's full view of PiL, but it's a shame the scope wasn't stretched out a bit further.

October 29, 2018 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…

J.A. Kordosh
Under the Radar
But it's Public Image Limited that Lydon is most loved for by music nerds, and The Public Image is Rotten is the definitive portrait of the band's ups and downs over its decades of existence.

October 29, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Sean Mulvihill
FanboyNation.com
Fiiller has a lot of material to juggle but does so admirably. It's breathless at times, but never less than engaging. Better yet, Lydon's increasingly baffling politics are kept well out of it.

September 13, 2018 | Full Review…

Andrew Winter
Film Inquiry
As fascinating and well-crafted as it is, The Public Image Is Rotten is ultimately a vanity project.

September 13, 2018 | Full Review…

Frank Lovece
Film Journal International

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