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The Public Image Is Rotten is a documentary that serves its potential audience well. Oct 1, 2018 | Full Review…
The Public Image Is Rotten is a documentary that serves its potential audience well.
Owen Gleiberman
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. Sep 14, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
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.
Simon Abrams
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. Sep 13, 2018 | Full Review…
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.
Glenn Kenny
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. Nov 9, 2017 | Full Review…
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.
J. R. Jones
John Lydon's post-Sex Pistols career is examined in this intimate doc that proves as frustrating as it is fascinating. Apr 29, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
John Lydon's post-Sex Pistols career is examined in this intimate doc that proves as frustrating as it is fascinating.
Ed Gibbs
[The Public Image is Rotten] makes one wonder: Does anyone still care? Jan 16, 2019 | Full Review…
[The Public Image is Rotten] makes one wonder: Does anyone still care?
Ren Jender
This documentary, directed by Tabbert Fiiller... features the good fun of Lydon's raconteur rants and his willingness to always up-end expectations. Nov 1, 2018 | Full Review…
This documentary, directed by Tabbert Fiiller... features the good fun of Lydon's raconteur rants and his willingness to always up-end expectations.
Armond White
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. Oct 29, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
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.
Sean Mulvihill
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. Oct 1, 2018 | Rating: 7/10 | Full 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.
J.A. Kordosh
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. Sep 27, 2018 | Full Review…
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.
Jonathan Romney
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. Sep 13, 2018 | Full Review…
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.
Andrew Winter
As fascinating and well-crafted as it is, The Public Image Is Rotten is ultimately a vanity project. Sep 13, 2018 | Full Review…
As fascinating and well-crafted as it is, The Public Image Is Rotten is ultimately a vanity project.
Frank Lovece
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