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100A great, searching, incendiary chronicle of the Sex Pistols, the razor-hearted visionaries of punk anarchy.
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100Temple's wonderfully entertaining film brings the era back in all its confused and tentatively revolutionary glory, and bracingly demonstrates that the Pistols still have the power to shock.
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90A kinetic and unstoppable ride.
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90A kickass documentary.
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90A big gob of fun.
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89Anyone who can watch this film and deny that the Sex Pistols were one of the four or five most exciting and indelibly brilliant rock groups ever is pumping formaldehyde, not blood, through his veins.
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88To see this film's footage from the '70s is to see the beginning of much of pop and fashion iconography for the next two decades.
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88The concerts are hypnotic, the music is swell, and the entire package moves along at just the right pace.
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88This bizarre, original and brilliantly crafted documentary about the Sex Pistols is funny and at times moving -- despite all the ugliness and stupidity it depicts.
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This time around, Julien Temple gets it right.
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88If nothing else, The Filth and the Fury is a searing, forceful, entertainingly biased reminder only that the English group mattered - as musicians and as anti-social curs.
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88This is a warts 'n' all portrayal - there's no dodging the feelings of both disgust and amusement.
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85There are only a handful of great music documentaries ... but Temple's film deserves a place in the canon.
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80This loud and exhilarating documentary from director Julien Temple brings it all back in a vitriolic spray of spite, spittle and raw rock and roll that still hits like a heart attack.
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80The Sex Pistols themselves were bloody magnificent.
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80The filmmaker might be accused of preaching to the choir were the story not so compelling and the performances so strong.
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80Stays with you, though, not because of its political content, but because of the unexpected emotional punch that's thrown near the end.
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80Electrifying.
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80The electrifying jolt that they gave to a moribund music scene, and British society in particular, is still riveting to watch.
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75Efficiently and imaginatively directed.
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75It's just as voyeuristically enjoyable as those VH-1 has-been bios but without the soft-focus star shots and with far more edge, energy and originality.
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Above all, it makes one thing clear: This group was wickedly funny.
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75Irritates in the early going when many of the current-day interviews are so intentionally underlighted that we can't see what the group members look like.
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75An absorbing glimpse not only at the phenomenon of punk rock but also at British social history and the rock star mystique.
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75A documentary that's as chaotic, rude and funny as the band could be.
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70A film as arresting and at times as frustrating as the Pistols themselves.
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70The period ambience (call it funk) is irresistible, but the main points of interest here are sociological rather than musical.
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63It's just twice as much as we need to know about the Sex Pistols.
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