Gorgeous imagery.

| Sep 1, 2021

It's a too-familiar rags-to-riches-to-rags tale without much substance. But it looks and sounds good, and now and again it rocks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

The audience is meant to relate to Jett's indignation-the band's success should hinge on their sound, not their looks-but it feels like a bogus position, since we, in watching the scene on the lawn, have been made complicit in Cherie's objectification.

| Feb 8, 2018

| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It's not so much a shock to the system as a series of practised strokes, yet -- for moments at a time -- it makes you squirm happily in your seat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2010

Given that the band were more about attitude than music, there's not a lot of substance here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 10, 2010

Fanning captures Currie's surly "Cherry Bomb" style effectively, particularly when dolled up in the notorious white basque that Currie is remembered for; Stewart is even better as the furiously smouldering Jett.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2010

Maybe The Runaways is Linson's way of showing that he can make a success of this subject, and I think he has done, with a film which shows how brutal and sexist rock'n'roll is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2010

Exuberant and aggressive but also questionable and ambivalent.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2010

Hazy both as a portrait of teenage excess (a lot of pouting, kissing, and kicking of dustbins) and as an account of The Runaways' fame in the second half of the 1970s (they appear to have been big in Japan).

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2010

Cringe-making fun for survivors of the '70s.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2010

The result is an entertaining mess: lively and stylish, but frustratingly inconsequential.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2010

The film follows the band down the bog- standard rock 'n' roll madness route, and the shallow script doesn't offer much of an insight into Joan or Cherie's personalities along the way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 8, 2010

One of the best examples of the beautifully flawed is The Runaways and its film counterpart follows suit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2010

Dakota Fanning's pre-teen innocent appearance contributes greatly to the captivating nature of her metamorphosis into rock diva in The Runaways.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2010

It has problems but it does do one thing well: it captures the madness and exhilaration of being young, hungry and female in '70s rock'n'roll, a time when when glam rock and punk collided with a sort of feminism.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 13, 2010

The Runaways is cool, but the Runaways were just so much cooler.

| Jul 6, 2010

Aside from following the clichd (if real) storyline, The Runaways is plagued by something of a split personality, thanks to its two young stars.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 9, 2010

Excess is abundant in photographer and music-video director Floria Sigismondi's energetic debut.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2010