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…goes beyond the social realism so prevalent in British film, to capture the immediacy and euphoria of 1990s rave culture.
Full reviewSet in the Scottish summer of '94, two soon-to-depart mates spend one last night together at an illegal rave in this electronic music-driven crowd-pleaser.
…goes beyond the social realism so prevalent in British film, to capture the immediacy and euphoria of 1990s rave culture.
Full reviewWelsh has delivered a compelling snapshot of an era and captured a moment in life when friendship is at its most sustaining.
Full reviewBeats is a simple structure, loaded with detail, dialogue and situations that only a writer who lived it could have conjured up.
Full reviewBeats doesn't have anything more to say than previous films about dance culture, but with a visual style of its own and excellent music choices, it's a fitting tribute to an era etched in the memory of anyone old enough to have attended.
Full reviewThe script, adapted by Welsh and Kieran Hurley from Hurley's play, is especially good on the preciousness and subjectivity of cultural experience.
Full reviewIt's miraculously authentic - the pill-popping centrepiece is the heavenly answer to the LSD hell of Gaspar Noé's 'Climax'.
Full reviewBeats brilliantly captures the nervy, joyful terror of turning up at a derelict warehouse equipped with a soundsystem and woefully inadequate toilet facilities.
Full reviewBeats proceeds to give a dying scene its euphoric due, in a dazzling digression from stage-based form.
Full reviewCompared with Mia Hansen-Løve’s resonant French house drama Eden, or Michael Winterbottom’s kaleidoscopic 24 Hour Party People, these beats sound tinny.
Full reviewAn infectiously enjoyable slice of knockabout nostalgia that wears its Trainspotting heritage proudly on its rough-edged tartan sleeve.
Full reviewBeats is a truly heartfelt rites-of-passage tale — an immersive, intoxicating portrayal of the rave scene at its peak.
Full reviewBeats (UK) is available to stream in Australia now on Google Play and Apple TV and Vimeo On Demand.
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