Even Airheads, the 1994 comedy that spoofed Sunset Strip hard-rock culture, had a more gripping storyline and emotional arc (and certainly more laughs) than this tale of a real band that helped define that scene.

| Feb 21, 2020

It's very regressive in its politics.

| Sep 24, 2019

This is rock bad-boy lore as a rocking bore, an endless parade of recreated afterparty ecstasy and emptiness that robs The Dirt of the vicarious thrill it had on the page.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 25, 2019

Like most biopics, The Dirt crams so many events into its narrative as to compromise the sense that these are real characters in the here and now.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 23, 2019

None of it adds up to much beyond painting the band, despite their often repellently bad behavior, in a flattering light.

| Mar 23, 2019

It's just a thinly written VH1-style sketchbook of a movie - which is to say, it's a Netflix film, with zero atmosphere, overly blunt lighting, and a threadbare post-psychological telegraphed quality that gives you nothing to read between the lines.

| Mar 23, 2019

Its own pointlessness may keep The Dirt from feeling like an actual affront to humanity, but that doesn't make it very good, either.

| Mar 23, 2019

It's as if the film arrived to the streaming service in a bubble, unaware that the culture has moved on and that Netflix is brimming with content written, directed and starring strong women.

| Mar 22, 2019

A delightfully disreputable biopic about some of rock's last true bad boys.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2019

If only it could be half as fun as Mötley Crüe thinks it is.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 22, 2019

The danger of a document like The Dirt is in showing pigheadedness as not only fun and cool, but also elemental, inexplicable, and unstoppable. Boys will be boys, boys, boys.

| Mar 22, 2019

Rock biopics often struggle with the part after the party's over, but "The Dirt" becomes unusually adrift; at times, you can't even tell what decade you're supposed to be watching...

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 22, 2019

A bit of introspection would heighten the experience and deepen the characters, but Tremaine leans on familiar themes of tribal unity to glaze over the thinner sections of the script.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 22, 2019

Presented as an "unflinching" story of redemption, this silly-sappy film lowers the bar for to musical biopics.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 22, 2019

You could listen to'Dr. Feelgood' two full times during the run time of The Dirt and learn just about as much about the band as you do in this R-rated Wikipedia article of a movie.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 22, 2019

The Dirt is a bad movie but it isn't without its pleasures.

| Mar 22, 2019

[A] tepid, incompetent biopic.

| Mar 22, 2019

This movie won't win any awards. Nor should it. But for two hours it's a nostalgic blast to sit back and revel in the idiocy of these glorious, big-haired jackasses.

| Original Score: B | Mar 22, 2019

Booth, Webber and Rheon possess similar abilities to navigate between charm and repulsion, all working together to create such a chummy group that their power as an ensemble elevates the material. Just like their real-life counterparts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2019