"What We Do Is Secret" makes a bid for entering Crash into rock'n'roll mythology.

| Mar 9, 2018

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Long live the baby monsters.

| Aug 15, 2011

A docudrama with the production qualities of a made-for-M온라인카지노추천 movie about a band that recorded one album and never finished a gig and whose lead singer was a fascist poseur.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 30, 2009

In sure hands, What We Do Is Secret could have been a fine rock'n'roll biopic.

| Original Score: C | Nov 7, 2008

West is magnetic trying to fill the gaps in the pop psychology insight into how the Germs' brief candle burned out so fast, with performances, "interviews" and flashbacks.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 1, 2008

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

Despite its thorough attention to historical detail and the obvious love of all involved for their shattered subject, What We Do Is Secret is, in the end, awfully sterile for a movie about the Germs.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 17, 2008

While What We Do Is Secret may not be remembered for much more than West's performance, it's an impersonation worth saluting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 10, 2008

The final scenes of Secret are its best and, ironically, the original Germs' final moments were said to be their best, too.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 26, 2008

The battering live shows prove West's dedication to the role, but as always there's too little insight into both music and musicians and too much period design

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 12, 2008

The faux interview preserves Darby Crash's self-image, the reenactment in What We Do Is Secret remembers the preservation.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 12, 2008

Grossman's movie never delves much below the surface.

| Sep 4, 2008

Some of the supporting performances, like those of Phillips and Gonzalez, are very strong, but it's West who lifts the entire film to a whole other level.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2008

It's a shame to see such vibrant material treated in such a routine, nostalgic manner, but the energy of the material and especially of the Germs music occasionally rescues the movie from its unimpressive, superficial stretches.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 28, 2008

High School Musical with needles and dye jobs.

| Aug 28, 2008

Despite a terrific performance from Shane West, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Crash, Secret is a chronology, not a biopic.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 28, 2008

First-time writer-director Rodger Grossman bangs out a visceral, energized biopic that captures the vibrant idiocy of punked-out youth and a tortured soul gaining his wish of cult status.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2008