
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.
Full reviewOscar winner Gary Oldman is Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk icons Sex Pistols, starring alongside Emmy nominee Chloe Webb as Sid's girlfriend Nancy in this relationship biopic from the director of Repo Man.
January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.
LessThough dark and harrowing, explicit and unsparing, the movie proves a riveting biography of these burnt-out icons and their iconoclastic half-decade.
Full reviewA few too many moralistic foreshadowings, but most of the time Cox's situations and characters develop on their own eloquently entropic terms.
Full reviewA film that never feels remotely real, content to wallow in dead-rock-star mythology and tedious druggie indulgences.
Full reviewIt's a hard film to watch at times, as Vicious plunges deeper into his heroin-induced slump, but (it is) told with skill and compassion...
Full reviewOnce we sense a glimmer of talent and accept these people as human beings, the tragedy of their drug use resonates enormously.
Full reviewSpiking the filth and fury of tainted love with disarming humour and lyricism, Cox doesn’t just plot an obvious decline...
Full reviewA... Beckettian masterpiece about those two prisoners of futility, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen...
Full reviewIt’s a solid film, and definitely interesting as biography. Yet it’s the sequences where Cox allows his mind to wander... where the film comes into its own.
Full reviewThe performances of Oldman and Webb, both stage-trained veterans, are simply astonishing.
Full review(Cox) and his actors pull off the neat trick of creating a movie full of noise and fury, and telling a meticulous story right in the middle of it.
Full reviewIt's not every film maker who credits special thanks to both Luis Bunuel and Dee Dee Ramone, but then Mr. Cox doesn't fit any recognisable mold.
Full reviewSid & Nancy is available to stream in Australia now on Binge and SBS On Demand and Ritz at Home.
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