
A documentary about the punk band The Sex Pistols. The film tries to lighten some of the backgrounds of their way through the punk era while telling the story of the band from zero back to zero. Features lots of interviews and comments of folks who were involved.... (Full plot summary below)
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A documentary about the punk band The Sex Pistols. The film tries to lighten some of the backgrounds of their way through the punk era while telling the story of the band from zero back to zero. Features lots of interviews and comments of folks who were involved.
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| Film.comPeter BrunetteTemple's wonderfully entertaining film brings the era back in all its confused and tentatively revolutionary glory, and bracingly demonstrates that the Pistols still have the power to shock. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA great, searching, incendiary chronicle of the Sex Pistols, the razor-hearted visionaries of punk anarchy. |
| culturevulture.netGary MairsOne can pay it no greater compliment than to say that it is worthy of its subject. |
| Chicago TribuneJohn PetrakisIf nothing else, The Filth and the Fury is a searing, forceful, entertainingly biased reminder only that the English group mattered - as musicians and as anti-social curs. |
| Boston GlobeJim SullivanTo see this film's footage from the '70s is to see the beginning of much of pop and fashion iconography for the next two decades. |
| Austin ChronicleRussell SmithAnyone who can watch this film and deny that the Sex Pistols were one of the four or five most exciting and indelibly brilliant rock groups ever is pumping formaldehyde, not blood, through his veins. |
| Philadelphia InquirerDan DeLucaThis time around, Julien Temple gets it right. |
| Matinee MagazineChuck RudolphTemple's repetitive style grows tiresome. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxThis loud and exhilarating documentary from director Julien Temple brings it all back in a vitriolic spray of spite, spittle and raw rock and roll that still hits like a heart attack. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanThe filmmaker might be accused of preaching to the choir were the story not so compelling and the performances so strong. |