An impressive debut from a filmmaker who knew the band, the geographic and cultural milieu, and most of all: the man at the center of the maelstrom.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 29, 2024

Control ends up being just another portrait of a self-destructive genius, albeit one as compelling and cryptic as Curtis himself.

| Sep 8, 2023

Expressively shot in black-and-white, the film lends an understated beauty to the Victorian backstreets of Macclesfield.

| Mar 30, 2023

If suicidality wavers through a spectrum of solipsism and obsequity, Control knows existence as performance.

| May 18, 2022

Riley should have been nominated for an Oscar; his work here is on par with that year's er, Daniel Day Lewis...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 22, 2020

On a certain level, Corbijn's approach to filmmaking reminds me of Gus Van Sant's loose take on Kurt Cobain.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

This film owes its power to a refusal to overplay its die-young, stay-pretty ending, and a scary good turn by Sam Reilly, channeling Ian Curtis.

| May 26, 2020

Sam Riley is a revelation in the lead role in what is one of the outstanding British films of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

The film overcomes the central miscasting of Samantha Morton.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2010

The way Ian Curtis blocked his onstage movement mirrored isolationism in his home life. He clasped the microphone stand like a drowning man would a life preserver, but he couldn't stay afloat in dreary waters of his own creation. A seamless rock biopic.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 25, 2010

Film %u0107e stoga biti shvatljiv samo onim gledateljima koji detalje povijesti "Joy Divisiona" i Curtisovog %u017Eivota imaju u malom prstu, a to su, dakako, najokorjeliji fanovi.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 15, 2009

Control never gets any closer to the mystery than when the music plays. Too bad it cuts the songs short, returning to the banalities they were meant to shatter.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 23, 2009

The film leaves you with the impression of an almost painfully innocent young singer, for whom alienation was, alas, far more than a pose.

| Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Control does justice to Curtis' legacy but fails to make any further grasps for significance.

| Jul 31, 2008

Um filme repleto de planos magnificamente compostos e que se tornam ainda mais impactantes graças à impecável fotografia em preto-e-branco de Martin Ruhe.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 26, 2008

Positioning art as a necessary surrender to a creative force which removes the self dangerously from existence and society, Control intimately connects in tragic yet euphoric ways to the mixed blessing of the radically unleashed musical imagination.

| Mar 30, 2008

Some of Riley's musical performances are electrifying. This would not be a bad movie at all, except for the infuriatingly romantic portrayal of suicide.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 6, 2008