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Viewers expecting an in-depth biopic will be disappointed, but The Runaways is as electric as the band's music, largely thanks to strong performances from Michael Shannon, Dakota Fanning, and Kristen Stewart.
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The audience is meant to relate to Jett's indignation-the band's success should hinge on their sound, not their looks-but it feels like a bogus position, since we, in watching the scene on the lawn, have been made complicit in Cherie's objectification. Feb 7, 2018 | Full Review…
The audience is meant to relate to Jett's indignation-the band's success should hinge on their sound, not their looks-but it feels like a bogus position, since we, in watching the scene on the lawn, have been made complicit in Cherie's objectification.
Jennie Yabroff
It's not so much a shock to the system as a series of practised strokes, yet -- for moments at a time -- it makes you squirm happily in your seat. Sep 15, 2010 | Rating: 3/5
It's not so much a shock to the system as a series of practised strokes, yet -- for moments at a time -- it makes you squirm happily in your seat.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
Given that the band were more about attitude than music, there's not a lot of substance here. Sep 10, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Given that the band were more about attitude than music, there's not a lot of substance here.
Anthony Quinn
Fanning captures Currie's surly "Cherry Bomb" style effectively, particularly when dolled up in the notorious white basque that Currie is remembered for; Stewart is even better as the furiously smouldering Jett. Sep 10, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Fanning captures Currie's surly "Cherry Bomb" style effectively, particularly when dolled up in the notorious white basque that Currie is remembered for; Stewart is even better as the furiously smouldering Jett.
Marc Lee
Maybe The Runaways is Linson's way of showing that he can make a success of this subject, and I think he has done, with a film which shows how brutal and sexist rock'n'roll is. Sep 9, 2010 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Maybe The Runaways is Linson's way of showing that he can make a success of this subject, and I think he has done, with a film which shows how brutal and sexist rock'n'roll is.
Peter Bradshaw
Exuberant and aggressive but also questionable and ambivalent. Sep 9, 2010 | Rating: 3/5
Exuberant and aggressive but also questionable and ambivalent.
Matt Bochenski
While the offstage passion between Jett and Currie gives the film its emotional drive, their in-concert erotic aggression is an occasion for elegantly examining the line between self-expression and self-exploitation. Sep 5, 2018 | Full Review…
While the offstage passion between Jett and Currie gives the film its emotional drive, their in-concert erotic aggression is an occasion for elegantly examining the line between self-expression and self-exploitation.
Troy Patterson
It's a too-familiar rags-to-riches-to-rags tale without much substance. But it looks and sounds good, and now and again it rocks. Aug 23, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's a too-familiar rags-to-riches-to-rags tale without much substance. But it looks and sounds good, and now and again it rocks.
Anna Smith
The acting makes this movie. Too often in a music movie the soundtrack takes first precedence, but here the acting is the center of the movie. Oct 23, 2017 | Full Review…
The acting makes this movie. Too often in a music movie the soundtrack takes first precedence, but here the acting is the center of the movie.
Sarah Marrs
I find it the worst kind of form over function, in which all involved seem to have forgotten that the aesthetic rebellions of the time stemmed from a deeper defiance of the status quo. Jul 18, 2017 | Full Review…
I find it the worst kind of form over function, in which all involved seem to have forgotten that the aesthetic rebellions of the time stemmed from a deeper defiance of the status quo.
Lisa Rosman
A full-throttle joyride through fame's treacherous trenches. Oct 7, 2016 | Full Review…
A full-throttle joyride through fame's treacherous trenches.
Emily Rems
Fanning makes Currie's fame- and pharmaceutical-fueled transformation/liberation at once exhilarating and terrifying. Apr 8, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Fanning makes Currie's fame- and pharmaceutical-fueled transformation/liberation at once exhilarating and terrifying.
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