If you want to mosh about in Stone Roses nostalgia, check out Shane Meadows doc Made Of Stone instead.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2017

Though the story is drawn in broad strokes and overloaded with melodrama, director Mat Whitecross' exuberant feature understands the communal joy and personal necessity of rock 'n' roll.

| May 7, 2015

Spike Island has plenty of feckless, disorganised charm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2015

The film has an engagingly zippy and colorful visual style, evoking the splashy Summer of Love motifs around the Roses, with allusions to their music videos and paint-splattered, Jackson Pollock-esque sleeve artwork.

| May 4, 2015

The heady whirl of the Roses' first album played loud is a treat -- the only one.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 4, 2015

[The Stone Roses'] debut long player is one of the few rock albums that might justly be assessed all killer, no filler; Whitecross and Coghill's sincerely intended love letter to the era, not so much.

| May 4, 2015

[Director Whitecross has an] uncanny visual ability with music sequences as the film joyously skips through a pitch-perfect Madchester soundtrack.

Full Review | May 4, 2015

The piece as a whole gets bogged down in rites-of-passage cliches and, ultimately, seems out of time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2013

Whitecross clearly has both an eye and ear for the rarefied nuances of pop culture ...

| Jun 22, 2013

Incident after incident might be prefaced with the dread phrase "one time we took drugs and then . . ."

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 21, 2013

It's a likable, amiable movie, and a nice reminder of the roaring 90s.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2013

Sniff all you like, but Spike Island smells of nothing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 20, 2013

None of this ever feels remotely honest or real.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 18, 2013

Following Made Of Stone, this is another slice of nostalgia for baggies of a certain age.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2013