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100It's also that he's really, honest-to-God, got one of those movie faces that doesn't even come along once every generation. It's astonishing.
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100Even though we're aware of the tragic trajectory of the singer's life, for a while it almost seems as if reality got it wrong and Curtis might just squeak past the reaper's scythe with no more than a shave and a haircut.
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91Even if you have no interest in Joy Division, this picture is worth seeing for the unsentimental empathy and passion of the moviemaking.
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90You don’t have to know anything about Joy Division to grasp the mysterious sorrow at its heart.
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88It's Corbijn, shooting with a poet's eye in a harshly stunning black-and-white, who cuts to the soul of Ian's life and music. You don't watch this movie, you live it.
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88One of the most perceptive of rock music biopics.
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88Control doesn't claim to know the reasons Curtis killed himself. The act of suicide poses the question why, but rarely answers it, leaving the living to wonder, and to grieve. And there's certainly grief to be had in Control, but also joy. Really.
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83Control goes past the clichés of punk rock-god gloom to offer a snapshot of alienation that's shockingly humane.
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83Can a movie about such a fellow and such a fate be lovely? And can it uplift? Control is and, in its artfulness, does.
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The result is a shockingly human and aptly perceptive biopic.
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