A cringe-worthy script chock-full of clichés.

| Apr 28, 2020

This hard-nosed drama comes across like one of those BBC4 hatchet jobs on iconic Brits.

| Apr 28, 2020

The movie certainly had its moments, but Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll simply fails to take many risks.

| Apr 28, 2020

A clown-ish rock flick that we'd rather soon forget.

| Apr 28, 2020

If only the words I want to use to describe [Andy Serkis'] performance - charismatic, compelling - also applied to the movie around him.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2020

Even if nothing in the rest of the film quite matches that opening bravado and skill, it's a perfect opening salvo for a film that, even if it doesn't really know where it's going, has plenty of clever style while getting there.

| Apr 28, 2020

Whether he's being charming or wretched, Serkis delivers a 100-watt performance that perfectly matches the cheery, jagged visuals.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2020

Serkis is never less than ace.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 28, 2020

Stands up pretty well as a celebration of Dury.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2020

The acting generally is first-class, but what holds the film together is the performance of Andy Serkis.

| Apr 28, 2020

Andy Serkis uncoils a performance of spit, grit and wit so ferocious it only serves to starkly clarify how unremarkable and formulaic the rest of the movie is.

| Apr 27, 2020

Serkis is such a live wire that the supporting actors (Olivia Williams, Naomie Harris, Ray Winstone) can do little but stand back in awe. It's the rare instance where such admiration is earned.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 27, 2020

Largely entertaining, but not without fault, much like Drury himself.

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

Still, [Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll] has a peppy, funny and ultimately inspiring biopic with enjoyable supporting turns including Ray Winstone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2018

...a major performance in a minor film.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 15, 2011

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll ticks all the music biopic boxes, but Whitecross wisely ramps things up by looking at Dury's life with the same sort of random, chaotic vision that both blessed and cursed the man himself.

| Jul 7, 2011

Dury may have been a colorful figure, and the film is stylishly directed, but it follows the same musical-biopic formula already used in countless other movies.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 4, 2011

[Serkis is} a revelation as Drury.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 5, 2011

Hides an utterly conventional biopic behind a narrative chopped up into flashbacks, fantasies, animated interludes, music videos and carnivalesque stage shows.

| May 23, 2010

Somehow this well-intentioned film cannot help but turn an uncompromisingly original artist into a formula.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 7, 2010