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Pirate Radio

Overview


Genre :

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Release Date :

November 13, 2009

MPAA Rating :

R

Director :

Richard Curtis

Starring :

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gemma Arterton, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, January Jones, Jack Davenport, Ralph Brown, Chris O'Dowd, Tom Sturridge

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.    Readers  5 of 5 [Rate It]

3 of 4

“..too long..”
by James Berardinelli [ReelViews]
2 of 4

“..staid and stolid..”
by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger]
2.5 of 4

“..rowdy, mostly hilarious British comedy-drama..”
by Ty Burr [Boston Globe]
2 of 4

“..Pirate Radio treats its central genre as merely a reserve to be plundered for appropriately upbeat or gloomy soundtrack accompaniment..”
by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine]
1.5 of 4

“..painful little mistake of a movie..”
by Colin Covert [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune]
2.5 of 4

“..never finds a story..”
by Robert W. Butler [Kansas City Star]
2.5 of 4

“..isn't trying to cause a big sensation, it's just peddling instant gratification..”
by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
3 of 5

“..defined fully by the word "cute," mostly entertaining and inoffensive and often quite funny..”
by Christopher Null [Filmcritic.com]
1 of 4

“.."Pirate Radio" is less than seaworthy..”
by Tom Keogh [Seattle Times]
3 of 5

“.."Pirate Radio" is less like the truly great music it celebrates and more like a three-minute bubblegum single, something you enjoy while you're hearing it but forget about almost as soon as it's over..”
by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic]
Review rate : B-
Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly]
2.5 of 4
Reviewed by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone]
Review rate : C-
Reviewed by Sam Adams [Onion AV Club]
2 of 4
Reviewed by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Reviewed by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle]

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