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Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: Like producer/Svengali Kim Fowley, The Runaways puts music second. It rocks attitude and sex, drugs and abandonment Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A well-acted and vivid re-creation of a dark, downbeat era when "girls don't play electric guitar," and you had to be someone pretty tough and pretty special to try it. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It's pungent and quick on its feet, capturing the clubs, the shag-heavy interiors and the Farrah-haired vibe of mid-1970s Los Angeles in look and spirit. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The movie avoids many of the usual musical biopic cliches, but replaces them with an equally tired depiction of an innocent consumed by the wilderness she helped create, arriving at a muted, lethargic finale -- the antithesis of raucous rock 'n' roll. Read more
Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies: ... the film breathlessly unreels snapshots of a trip that's so swift there's no stopping for deep-dish exploration, or even sufficient time for the band's 'noise' to work its black magic. It's an oddly old-fashioned movie... Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: In patches it's agreeably lurid, but it's otherwise ho-hum. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Told with a jolting, lurid energy, The Runaways feels oddly off-balance. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: The Runaways were the first major all-girl punk band. In honor of this distinction, they're now the first major all-girl punk band to inspire a bleary, excessive, and altogether mediocre big-screen biography. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: The Runaways broke new ground. And if The Runaways doesn't, it's still a movie worth watching -- and listening to. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Jett, Currie, and the others are teen outcasts in Me Generation Los Angeles, aching to break out of their lives. You can feel their frustration, their need to make an unholy racket. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Making her feature debut, Sigismondi conjures up a cheapo New World Pictures vibe that's utterly persuasive. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: There's a flinty integrity in this movie's look at the rock grind, and Stewart and Fanning are intensely watchable. Read more
Preston Jones, Dallas Morning News: The band's few hits, like "Cherry Bomb" and "Queens of Noise," are all over the soundtrack, but the music, much like the people who made it, feels like an afterthought. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Excess is abundant in photographer and music-video director Floria Sigismondi's energetic debut. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Aside from following the cliched (if real) storyline, The Runaways is plagued by something of a split personality, thanks to its two young stars. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The most entertaining thing about The Runaways...is that its writer-director, Floria Sigismondi, has a sixth sense for how the Runaways were bad-angel icons first and a rock & roll band second. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: Stewart and Fanning handle the vocals admirably, their live performances blending seamlessly with actual Runaways recordings on the soundtrack. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Shannon infuses manic life and libido into the crazy, controlling genius in caftans and in the process makes real the ego-destroying realities and unforgiving odds of making it as a band. But every time things get interesting, like the Jett-Currie relati Read more
Charlie McCollum, San Jose Mercury News: It may be, as Fowley says near the end of the film, that the Runaways "were a conceptual rock project that failed." But as a film about a certain time and place in rock history, The Runaways largely succeeds. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Why should anyone watch this movie? And why would its stars make it, except to try to shake off their teen-idol images? Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Amusing though it sometimes is, the closest thing the movie offers to a reason for its existence is the post-Runaways success of Jett. Read more
Sara Vilkomerson, New York Observer: This movie hints at a really fascinating story but just barely scratches at its glittery surface. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: There's something awfully literal about watching the group famous for the refrain "Neon angels on the road to ruin!" as just that. And not much more. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The three leads provide convincing performances, with Dakota Fanning being the standout. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Fine work from Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning in this conventional but solid look at the chick-punk teen band from the 1970s. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Its interest comes from Shannon's fierce and sadistic training scenes as Kim Fowley, and from the intrinsic qualities of the performances by Stewart and Fanning, who bring more to their characters than the script provides. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Say what you will about the Runaways -- they never played it safe. The movie does. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Sometimes mind-blowing power isn't available, and a rollercoaster ride of stardom and depravity will just have to do. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It explains why kids needed rock 'n' roll, and why the Runaways still mean so much to those who remember them. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: The beats the movie hits are predictable enough that, after a rousing, raunchy opening act, the story of the group's fast rise and spectacular flameout begins to feel like an exceptionally dirty-mouthed after-school special. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Because the movie captures the period so well and argues so convincingly that the Runaways' very existence was revolutionary, it doesn't have to exaggerate the highs and lows to create a more salable story. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Floria Sigismondi has created a movie that's more interesting than the band that it's about. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Fanning and Stewart are the deserving stars of the film, nailing every last look and lick, holding their own even as Shannon savvily attempts to nick every scene. Read more
Tom Huddleston, Time Out: The result is an entertaining mess: lively and stylish, but frustratingly inconsequential. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: If anything, it just makes you want to know more about Jett's back story and Currie's subsequent life. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: While Jett and Currie emerge as blurry, half-formed characters, Shannon's Fowley brings the contradictions the Runaways embodied into sharp, biting focus. Read more