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Sid and Nancy

1986

Alex Cox

Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, Courtney Love, David Hayman ...

6.1

3,638

Musical Alex Coxs riveting biopic tells the bleak, heroin-drenched story of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his disturbed American girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Gary Oldman delivers a bravura performance as Sid, matched by Chloe Webb’s grating, clearly unhinged Nancy. The two lovers’ childlike tenderness with each other contrasts sharply with their bleak, violent nihilism, and while the script implies that Nancys death was accidental, the line ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"If you have an open mind, it is possibly true that the less you care about Sid Vicious, the more you will admire this movie (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A welcome corrective to bland punk nostalgia (...) This 30th anniversary restoration of Alex Cox’s Beckettian masterpiece shows how punk camouflaged a lot of undiagnosed dysfunction (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Rolling Stone	"What makes the film a classic is the skill with which the leads are so believable as heroin addicts"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune	This is a love story--an unlikely, perverse, disturbing love story, but a genuine one."	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"Though dark and harrowing, explicit and unsparing, the movie proves a riveting biography of these burnt-out icons and their iconoclastic half-decade."	POS
United States	Patrick Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"Sid and Nancy offers a compelling portrait of two pathetic souls who overdosed on pain and unhappiness"	POS

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