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The Dirt

2019

Jeff Tremaine

Iwan Rheon, Douglas Booth, Machine Gun Kelly, Pete Davidson ...

6.2

5,258

Comedy. Drama Based on Mötley Crüe’s 2001 best-selling autobiography, The Dirt is an unflinching and uncensored story about sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll, fame, and the high price of excess. Director Jeff Tremaine (JACKASS co-creator, BAD GRANDPA) shows us just how Nikki Sixx (Douglas Booth), Mick Mars (Iwan Rheon), Tommy Lee (Colson Baker), and Vince Neil (Daniel Webber) took Mötley Crüe from the Sunset Strip to the world stage, and what it meant to ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jason Bailey The New York Times	"[A] tepid, incompetent biopic (...) The nonstop preening and partying of the first half is exhausting, but the comedown"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It raises] the question: Is there anything left about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that isn't cliché? (...) [A] middling rock biopic (...) [The actors] are fine, and also not good enough"	NEU
United States	Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"None of it adds up to much beyond painting the band, despite their often repellently bad behavior, in a flattering light."	NEU
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"This is rock bad-boy lore as a rocking bore, an endless parade of recreated afterparty ecstasy and emptiness that robs 'The Dirt' of the vicarious thrill it had on the page (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Alex McLevy AV Club	"Already buffoonish men are reduced to cartoons (...) and any evidence of three-dimensional humanity is flattened by the steamroller of predictable human-drama beats."	NEG
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"[A] complete lack of depth, insight, or even competent filmmaking (...) Even the book tried harder to capture the guys' imperfections in a way that felt more honest (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG

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