Nancy serves as Cox’s metaphor for Sid’s addiction to heroin and his destructive, corrupt and greedy rock ‘n roll lifestyle...

| Jun 5, 2023

Rather than trade in the overt romanticization of its subject, Sid & Nancy instead offers a perceptive observation of Vicious and Spungen as people.

| Nov 28, 2021

Alex Cox's eye for capturing the grungy London and New York scenes in the late 1970s provides the picture with an added kick.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2021

This is arguably Cox's finest film. It's arguably one of the United Kingdom's finest.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 5, 2021

Neil Young may have namedropped Johnny Rotten in "My My, Hey Hey" but it's Vicious he was really singing about.

| Sep 30, 2019

Sid and Nancy is a fascinating record of a volatile period in music history.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2019

Sid & Nancy is a brutal tour de force.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 27, 2018

There is some nobility in the film's relentlessness and single-minded focus, but not enough to redeem its lack of having anything much to say beyond what we get on the surface.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 16, 2017

Cox doesn't just plot an obvious decline: things do get grim, but he makes you care as you also despair for punk's cracked casualties.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2017

Even if "Sid and Nancy" doesn't quite represent the imperfect perfection in which punk music so often traffics, Alex Cox's confident visual symbolism -combined with Chloe Webb & Gary Oldman's performances -grant it piercing volume and knotty shape.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 30, 2016

Sid and Nancy has some claim on being the finest British film of the 1980s.

| Sep 15, 2016

Riveting and repulsive, with a claustrophobic perspective that mirrors its subjects: all id, all in the moment. But it's also shallow, all on the surface.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2016

At its best Sid & Nancy has a captivating energy and rawness, and there are even some priceless moments of levity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2016

They are more than zombies doing needlepoint on each other's veins. Both are brought to life in complex, deeply felt performances from two actors who have abandoned themselves to enormously demanding and difficult roles.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 9, 2016

Repellent is the word for it, but the filmmakers might take that as a compliment, since hardcore sleaze is apparently what tickles them most.

| Aug 9, 2016

Every character is booked through to hell or purgatory. But we gasp at the inventiveness, ferocity and cuckoo anarchy with which these rockers prepared their route to destruction or damnation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2016

Oldman plays Vicious as awkward, insecure and violent; Webb's Spungen is tantrum-prone yet has a streak of generosity. They both seem very real, though neither will generate much sympathy.

| Aug 9, 2016

Sid & Nancy is an honorable try, but it could have been better had Cox found a way to imbue the movie with some of the sheer zaniness of his Repo Man.

| Aug 9, 2016

Sid and Nancy is a brilliantly acted surprise from newcomers Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 9, 2016

Once we sense a glimmer of talent and accept these people as human beings, the tragedy of their drug use resonates enormously.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 9, 2016