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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir

    The most powerful documentary I've seen all year, and one of the two or three best films ever made about an artist or musician. Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    The film is much more than a biography of the Clash's guitarist and lead singer: It's history, criticism, philosophy and politics, played fast and loud. Read full review

  • 88
    Philadelphia Inquirer |

    Julian Temple, the British music-documentary director who helmed the 2000 Pistols' flick "The Filth and the Fury," has done such cinematic justice to the punk humanist born John Graham Mellor, who died of a congenital heart defect in 2002. Read full review

  • 88
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    The triumph of this fond, uncontainable documentary is that it lets you hear that voice again loud and clear. Read full review

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Captures the Joe Strummer who, in the late 1970s, just about firebombed the rock establishment with his fury. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    One artist's moving tribute to another. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    The film is a rigorously thorough biography and an impassioned accolade. Temple spends as much time on Strummer's life before and after the Clash as he does charting the band's powerful musical and political influence. Read full review

  • 78
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    Like an early Clash number, it's by turns lovely and ugly, loud as bombs and quiet as a revolution's first-thrown stone; it acknowledges the legend while uncovering the truth. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    One of the most direct and personal music documentaries ever made. Read full review

  • 75
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    The movie fascinates not so much because of Strummer, whose brooding temperament and flash-and-burn career arc seems pretty routine by rock standards, but because of the way Temple organized and edited the film. Read full review

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