The Runaways Reviews

Movie Reviews

• unconventional drama

  by Bill Weber [Slant Magazine ]

• The Runaways is very musical

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• The Runaways is anything but a straight-ahead biopic.

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• The Runaways is a movie you probably want to see

  by Ray Greene [Boxoffice Magazine ]

• The Runaways is a glumly episodic rock saga

  Review rate : B- by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• Say what you will about the Runaways - they never played it safe

  by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• recycling every trope from the doomed-rocker handbook

  by Carrie Rickey [Philadelphia Inquirer ]

• it's still a movie worth watching - and listening to

  by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]

• It just wouldn't be the '70s if it didn't leave audiences with a cocaine hangover

  by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• heady rise, painful fall

  by Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News ]

• Guilty Pleasures

  by Kirk Honeycutt [Hollywood Reporter ]

• adolescent rebellion

  Review rate : C by Nathan Rabin [A.V. Club ]

• a little too tame in the end, but it is just wild enough

  by A.O. Scott [NY Times ]

• "The Runaways" works best when the music is allowed to speak for itself

  Review rate : C by Gary Thompson [Philadelphia Daily News ]

• "The Runaways" feels oddly off-balance

  by Moira Macdonald [Seattle Times ]

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