Ex Drummer
  • Studio: Tartan
  • Release Date: Mar 4, 2011
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36 out of 100

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7.4 out of 10

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  • Summary: Three drug-addled, misfit punk rock musicians are looking for a drummer. They approach Dries, a well known writer whose arrogant self assurance and yuppie lifestyle make him an unlikely candidate, but the fact that he can′t play the drums appeals to the band′s punk sensibility. Fascinated by these dysfunctional characters, Dries joins the group. His arrival awakens the personal disputes and family feuds latent in the band. A shocking, hardcore, blood-spattered depiction of small time rock musicians losing the plot rather than living the dream. (Palisades Tartan)… Collapse

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. Empire
    Reviewed by: David Parkinson
    Mar 1, 2011
    60
    This grungy anti-musical will offend just about everyone with its attitude towards women, gays, kids, and the elderly.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Mar 4, 2011
    40
    As the not-so-comic violence and the violent, misogynistic sex pile up, it becomes the kind of black humor in which the joke is largely on the audience.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nicolas Rapold
    Mar 1, 2011
    40
    The flashy adaptation of the book by aging Belgian provocateur Herman Brusselmans is as systematically offensive and boisterously vulgar as its degenerate punk protagonists.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Jay Weissberg
    Mar 1, 2011
    30
    Signaling a new low in post-modern smug superiority, Ex Drummer tries to pass off contempt as comedy and slanted lensing as creativity.

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  1. ORANGEoCLOCK
    7
    Interesting and musical. Not bad at all.

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