Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

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Taking its name from one of punk and new wave progenitor Ian Dury's most popular songs, this biopic about the Blockheads' British front man chronicles his childhood battle with polio and his subsequent, unlikely rise to rock fame. Lord of the Rings veteran Andy Serkis stars as the legendary musician, and Arthur Darvill, James Jagger, Tom Hughes, Clifford Samuel and Joe Kennedy play his bandmates.
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Netflix Rating: 2.9
NYT Review: A new movie about the British rocker Ian Dury follows a colorful career on a familiar trajectory. Read the review
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Top Rotten Tomatoes Critics: Somehow this well-intentioned film cannot help but turn an uncompromisingly original artist into a formula. full review

A.O. Scott, New York Times

It's an energetic and vivacious film that will appeal to fans of punk rock worldwide and should find its place in the pantheon of great music-film biographies. full review

Ray Bennett, Hollywood Reporter

Paul Viragh's script is too bitty to hold it all together, and filigrees of technique fail to disguise the weaknesses in helmer Mat Whitecross' first solo flight. full review

Leslie Felperin, Variety