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

  • 80
    Variety |

    Actor Shane West and writer-director Rodger Grossman have a clear, unwavering perspective on Crash that should entice curiosity seekers and old punks. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    Grossman does a workmanlike job with the film, but his direction and script don't really offer any great insight into Darby's tortured soul. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times |

    Grossman bangs out a visceral, energized biopic that captures the vibrant idiocy of punked-out youth and a tortured soul gaining his wish of cult status. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    Ex-Germs infect biopic with punk authenticity Read full review

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    One for the fans, even though writer-director Rodger Grossman and co-writer Michelle Baer Ghaffari labor mightily to spin it into something larger. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    What's lacking is a feeling for the heat and deafening chaos of actual club shows. The movie hangs back a little, folds its arms and nods its head, rather than rushing the stage or diving into the mosh pit. The tumult is depicted, not captured. Read full review

  • 50
    Salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir

    This isn't a boring movie or a dishonest one. But it's a relentlessly literal-minded one, light on vision and atmosphere, that moves through the history of the Germs with a checklist. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Philip Kennicott

    You are left with the feeling that either Grossman hasn't done justice to the Germs or the justice they deserved was to spend eternity as a historical footnote. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Jeannette Catsoulis

    The movie offers too little of Crash's justly revered lyricism and too much of his self-mutilation and manufactured chaos. Read full review

  • 50
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Carrie Rickey

    Despite a terrific performance from Shane West, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Crash, Secret is a chronology, not a biopic. Read full review

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