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1.5
Said story is not depicted in The Dirt, thankfully, but that doesnt mean the movie wont be vilified for its other gnarly moments.
Den Of Geek
2.0
Image zoom Jake Giles Netter/Netflix The former bad boys of the Sunset Strip, Motley Crue, get just the biopic they deserve in Netflixs adaptation of ..
EW
1.3
When I told a friend of mine that I was reviewing Motley Crues The Dirt, he replied, I dont need a movie.
Rogerebert
3.0
As Andy Warhol famously never said: In the future, every arena sized music act of the 20th century will get its own Bohemian Rhapsody for 115 minutes.
Indie Wire
3.0
A long time ago, the words sex, drugs, and rock n roll carried a hint of danger.
Variety
3.0
Hot on the heels of Bohemian Rhapsodys mystifying four Oscar wins and box office glory comes The Dirt, the long gestating biopic of the 80s glam rock ..
The Guardian
3.1
Rock n roll movies offer up sin, music, and redemptive platitudes that allow us to feel virtuous after weve initially been encouraged to revel in the ..
2.5
Photo: Netlfix Theres no getting around it, so you may as well go in prepared: The Dirt opens with female ejaculation, captured in glorious freeze fra ..
Vulture
3.0
Heavy metal bad boys Motley Crue get a bromantic biopic thats nowhere near as transgressive as it should be.
The Hollywood Reporter
1.0
Motley Crues first gig, as dramatized in Jeff Tremaines Netflix adaptation of the bands memoir, The Dirt, does not go well.
The New York Times
1.5
And there isnt even an ounce of interrogation of the crews most questionable behavior.
Rogerebert
1.0
The Dirt doesnt bother to recreate L.A.s Sunset Strip circa 1980s here either, at least in any detail.
4.0
The Dirt 8 10 PLOT: The hedonistic, true story of Motley Crue Vince Neil (Daniel Webber), Nikki Sixx (Douglas Booth), Tommy Lee (Machine Gun Kelly) an ..
JoBlo
2.0
Share Tweet Email Copy Link Copied Netflixs The Dirt has all the sensationalist sex, drugs and rock n roll of Motley Crue, but little heart despite it ..
Screen Rant
1.3
Open this photo in gallery The Dirt is the story of how Motley Crue came to be one of the most notorious rock n roll groups in history.
The Globe And Mail
3.0
10 1 6 / 10 Rock bio pics are all the rage these days, and after the massive success of Bohemian Rhapsody (the story of Freddie Mercury and Queen), Th ..
Blu Ray
1.0
The Dirt, the long in development biopic of 80s sleaze rockers Motley Crue, shares a lot with the recent megahit Bohemian Rhapsody.
Tv Guide
1.5
Instead, a flat narrative and mostly one dimensional characters land The Dirt somewhere between cheeseball buddy flick and Lifetime movie melodrama.
Chicago Reader
3.8
I think this serves well as a Netflix movie...I didnt know a lot of the story, so I was pretty fascinated by it.
You Tube
3.0
Rock band Motley Crue were not exactly known for their subtlety, and this excess all areas biopic of LAs kings of spandex tells their debauched story ..
Radio Times
2.0
Are you fucking kidding me!.You probably uttered this statement in awe at least a few times, dear readers of The Dirt, when you picked up Motley Crues ..
Rolling Stone
1.5
Where to Stream: The Dirt (2019) More Options In 2017, Netflix shouted at the devil lording over development hell and finally fast tracked The Dirt, t ..
Decider
3.8
AlMOVIE The Dirt WHEN|WHERE Starts streaming Friday on Netflix WHAT ITS ABOUT In the early 1980s, four rock star hopefuls calling themselves Motley Cr ..
News Day
1.5
But it doesnt feel like the film makers heart is in it the way it does in the first half.
The Guardian
3.0
A thoroughly standard issue musical biopic, albeit one which captures and doesnt fully romanticise the bands dangerous, anarchic spirit.
Flickering Myth
2.0
Photo: Jake Giles Netter (Netflix) Theres a scene about 30 minutes into The Dirt, the biopic loosely adapted from the Motley Crue memoir of the same n ..
Tv Av Club
1.5
The danger of a document like The Dirt is in showing pigheadedness as not only fun and cool, but also elemental, inexplicable, and unstoppable. Boys w ..
The Atlantic
3.5
For a Motley Crue biopic, The Dirt is appropriately garish and trashy.
Birth Movies Death
1.0
Review: Netflixs The Dirt Is a Potent Reminder of an Era You Wish You Could Forget By Dustin Rowles | Streaming | March 22, 2019 | My coming of age ye ..
Pajiba
2.0
Motley Crues notorious autobiography comes to life but rarely digs below the surface Douglas Booth, Daniel Webber, Iwan Rheon and Colson Baker in The ..
Detroit News
1.5
And judged on that scale, The Dirt isnt even the glorified version.
Variety
3.0
But, good times as they say dont last for long, and one seemingly harmless moment of carelessness turns their world around.
Firstpost
3.8
You wont necessarily walk away with any new insights into Motley Crue.
Aisle Seat
3.8
You wont necessarily walk away with any new insights into Motley Crue.
Aisle Seat
1.0
Lowering every expectation possible will not prepare you for the subterranean depths to which this hapless history of Motley Crue can sink.
Herald Sun
2.0
The Pitch: The pervy old uncle of rock autobiographies, 2000s The Dirt charts the exploits of glam metal antiheroes Motley Crue.
Consequence Of Sound
1.0
Jake Giles Netter The Dirt Netflix As Tommy Lee, Colson Baker (right) is the only one who brings his rock star character to life in The Dirt.
Now Toronto
1.0
Motley Crue are one of rocks most notorious bands and while The Dirt doesnt hold back from dipping into the waters of their depravity, it spends more ..
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
2.0
The Dirt introduces us to Motley Crue as just a gang of fucking idiots and then tries to get us emotionally invested in them.
Daily Dot
2.5
The trouble is, the director... cant quite handle the tonal shifts in a convincing way.
Straight
4.0
Anyone watching this film for actual Musical Content is bound to be disappointed...
The Ringer
1.5
The slouching result of this Machine Gun Kelly, Daniel Webber, Douglas Booth and Game of Thrones alum Iwan Rheon starrer is more 2001s sad Rockstar fe ..
Dead Line
3.0
Netflix A movie based on Motley Crues collective autobiography, The Dirt, has been in consideration for years.
What Culture
1.5
The Dirt, a Netflix original that charts the rise and fall and rise of legendary glam rockers Motley Crue, is a remarkably tame adaptation of one of t ..
Polygon
3.0
Heres a free tip for music fans hoping the New Orleans shot film The Dirt will do for Motley Crue what the Oscar winning Bohemian Rhapsody did for Que ..
No La
2.0
The Dirt, a new Netflix biopic based on the tell all band autobiography The Dirt: Confessions of the Worlds Most Notorious Rock Band, is the inside lo ..
The Daily Beast
3.5
Its almost as much of a miracle The Dirt exists as it is that the members of Motley Crue are all still technically alive.
Or Lando Weekly
3.0
Its based on the decade of excess and doesnt mold itself to fit todays morality or mentality.
Cultured Vultures
2.0
The Dirt opens with narration that condemns the 1980s as the worst fucking decade in human history.
Mid West Film Journal
1.3
Dumbo gets an electric jolt of nastiness from Keaton whose malicious grin is a character in its own right and Green, whose regal spunkiness confirms s ..
Willamette Week
2.0
The Dirt isnt a game changer for the music biopic genre nor is it one I would recommend, but the poolside scene with Ozzy Osbourne (Tony Cavalero) is ..
Screen Zealots
1.3
Its juvenile, indifferently made, garish in the worst way, and makes just about every other biopic look better by comparison.
Hollywood News
2.5
Hey rock biopic, hold my beer. Without a doubt a guilty pleasure.
1.5
The Dirt really feels like a rushed product, something quickly and cheaply made to capitalize on the success of Bohemian Rhapsody only this time its u ..
FanboyNation.com
3.3
Although it still succumbs to a lot of the cliches and tropes that populate most biopics made about rock stars, theres something about the already som ..
The Gate
1.9
Slapstick biography that does a pretty good job at confirming not all bands should have their own portrait in a feature film. .
2.0
The modern run of music biopics are all about brand over band and the more an artist is involved with a film, the more you should be afraid of the dep ..
Junkee
1.5
The 400 Word Review: The Dirt Netflixs Motley Crue biopic offers plenty of rock star mayhem, but no insight or substance.
Pitts Burgh Magazine
3.0
The Dirt Not rated, 107 minutes.Available today on Netflix. () Daniel Webber plays Vince Neil of the hair band Motley Crue in The Dirt.
Denton Record-Chronicle
1.5
It would be easy enough to embrace the trashy, shallow elements of The Dirt, but the truth is we deserve better.
High Def Digest
4.5
Maybe a dude rocking flawless blond beach waves and an $800 pair of white leather pants is something youre surprisingly into.
Cosmopolitan
0.0
Their latest ultimately feels less like a curated narrative than it does a grab bag of loose ideas shaped around an intriguing buddy sci fi black come ..
Flickering Myth
2.5
While Tremaine doesnt shy away from what he clearly sees as harmless mischief, the film never reckons with the reality that Mtley Cre reveled in being ..
The Lamplight Review
4.5
I love the performances, but Im just not super sold on the script, to be honest... Im really ready for to be his own voice now.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los A ..
1.3
Growing up in the mid 2000s, classic rock and 80s metal became the bedrock of my musical foundation.
We Boughta Blog
1.0
And tellingly, theres been a pick n mix approach to what goes in the film version.
NME
1.5
Director Jeff Tremaine has previously helmed four Jackass movies, so that should give you some idea about his aptitude with serious emotional material ..
Exclaim!
4.5
The Dirt is an honest trash, coherent with the band it pays tribute to, if compared to the calculated, sweetened and aseptic Bohemian.
El Universal
3.0
If this movie were a person, it grabbed my butt, offered me drugs, puked on my shoes and, after apologizing, tried to get on with my wife. I had a bla ..
QiiBO
3.0
It is possible to love Jordan Peele, think he is our modern day Alfred Hitchcock in the making, and still admit that Us isnt all that it should be.
AXS.com
4.5
However, if the sun doesnt finally come out, we are not left in the dark where the musical story is concerned.
Film Bunker
4.5
The Dirt is one of those films thats easy to watch because it feels universal.
2.0
Its not great, but its undoubtedly a better film than Bohemian Rhapsody, even if the music isnt nearly as good. (Philadelphia Weekly)
Splice Today
1.3
Netflix Blah blah fucking blah, says Mick Mars, in the new Netflix adaptation of Motley Crues group autobiography The Dirt.
The Pitch Kc
1.5
Some found Bohemian Rhapsody too clean, but no one will be able to say the same thing about The Dirt!
Extra Beurre
4.5
The tomes subhead is Confessions of the Worlds Most Notorious Rock Band and thats no hyperbole: I consider it the most revealing and raw tell all rock ..
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