The Filth and the Fury Reviews
Filth settles into a straightforward and mesmerizing account of the Pistols' spectacular rise and fall.
| May 25, 2022
| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011
Best for older teens, especially Sex Pistols fans.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010
"The Filth and the Fury" is the first punk rock documentary to lay out, in an editorial style, a thorough linear account of the last major musical movement of the twentieth century by way of that genre's fiercest example.
| Original Score: A+ | Apr 13, 2009
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2003
Loaded with great music and classic Sex Pistols moments.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2003
A stylish, and engrossing look at the brief punk error.
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 18, 2003
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002
Unlike most rock documentaries that rely on abundant concert imagery and studio outtakes, Filth is less concerned with the music than the setting that produced it.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2002
Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 3, 2002
| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2002
Temple's repetitive style grows tiresome.
| Original Score: short | Mar 8, 2002
| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2002
A dazzling and challenging film, fully seizing the opportunity to make a documentary film burst with vitality.
| Original Score: A | Feb 7, 2002
| Original Score: B | Jun 19, 2001
One can pay it no greater compliment than to say that it is worthy of its subject.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 18, 2001
| Original Score: 75/100 | Feb 14, 2001
| Original Score: A | May 12, 2000