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  • Summary: In 1962, Brian Jones was the founding member of one of the most famous rock and roll bands of all time: The Rolling Stones. A gifted musician, influential fashion icon and indiscriminate womanizer, Jones (Gregory) rode a glittering staircase to stardom for seven short years before being fired by the band. Shortly afterwards, he was found dead in the deep end of his own swimming pool and in the wake of his tragic death he became a legend. This is the directorial debut of Stephen Woolley, longtime producer for filmmaker Neil Jordan. (Landmark Theatres) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 22
  2. Negative: 6 out of 22
  1. It's a depressing story made even more of a downer by the absence of any Stones-performed music from their prime '60s years.
  2. Reviewed by: Felix Vasques Jr.
    60
    A must for any true rock aficionado.
  3. Reviewed by: Ethan Alter
    50
    A clichéd rock-star film.
  4. Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    38
    Glaringly lacking in the film are any original Stones songs. The group, who fired Jones just before his death, must not have thought much of the movie if they didn't allow their music to be used. Smart fellows.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 2 out of 3
  1. MapP.
    7
    Worth a look, better than I was expecting.
  2. WillC.
    3
    Really a super boring and dull movie. No Rolling Stones music either. I would avoid this one.
  3. JohnP.
    2
    As a life long fan of The Stones and still remembering the devastation I felt when I heard he had passed the movie has nullified all that. I'm not much into sugar coating but I can not believe that the director couldn't have found some positive in the mans life. If Jones was such a selfish mean spirited jerk then I guess it should no longer come to us as such a surprise whether he killed himself or someone offed him. He unfortunatley didn't deserve what could have been. Expand

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