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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary Born out of the 1977 British punk scene, the Mekons progressed from a group of socialist art students with no musical skills to the prolific, raucous progeny of Hank Williams. Joe Angio’s documentary reveals how, four decades into a still-evolving career, the Mekons continue to make original, genre-defying music while surmounting obstacl...

Directed By: Joe Angio

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 35 m

Revenge of the Mekons

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Born out of the 1977 British punk scene, the Mekons progressed from a group of socialist art students with no musical skills to the prolific, raucous progeny of Hank Williams. Joe Angio’s documentary reveals how, four decades into a still-evolving career, the Mekons continue to make original, genre-defying music while surmounting obstacl...

Directed By: Joe Angio

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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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100
Oct 28, 2014
What Angio captures, beautifully, is that the Mekons make great music because, together and apart, they’re so alive to the world around them.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
90
Oct 28, 2014
The film is both a generous primer on the band, which grew out of the punk movement in Leeds, England, in 1977, and a celebration of its longevity.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 5, 2014
Angio reveals a band that is still committed and, almost without precedent, still seems to get along. “We weren’t musicians,” singer-guitarist Jon Langford admits. “We were just seeing how far we could take it.” If revenge can be measured in years of continued creativity, this film shows the Mekons have had theirs.
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75
Apr 16, 2015
A contagious enthusiasm runs through the heart of Jon Angio’s Revenge of the Mekons, a documentary that celebrates and explores the evolving ethos of the seminal British punk band The Mekons while also proving that some of rock’s most interesting stories come not from success but survival.
By Mary Houlihan FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 29, 2014
In a way, this marvelous movie does show that the Mekons have declined, because they’ve become the one thing punk rockers never ever want to be: lovable.
By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 28, 2014
Revenge Of The Mekons has none of the raggedness of the band’s best songs, and the movie only occasionally gets to that very Mekons place that novelist Jonathan Franzen describes in the film, where despair and rage over the world’s pervasive injustice resolves into something blackly humorous, and even triumphant. But Angio hasn’t made a glancing, broadly outlined fan-doc, either.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 6, 2014
Director Joe Angio presents the group's music with the contagious enthusiasm of a diehard, but exuberance is no substitute for storytelling, and Revenge of the Mekons is in desperate need of a narrative path.
By Kyle Anderson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Daniel 13 Productions, Roseland Films, Semaphore Media
Release Date Oct 29, 2014
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.facebook.com/RevengeoftheMekons?ref=ts
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