Sid and Nancy
Criterion Collection, The | Release Date: November 7, 1986 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
CineVueMatthew Anderson
Sid and Nancy rages with a vitriolic fury which eventually becomes tiresome. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonTom Huddleston
A film that never feels remotely real, content to wallow in dead-rock-star mythology and tedious druggie indulgences. Read full review
60
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Sid and Nancy doesn't try to win its audience's sympathy in any conventional way, which is just as well, since that would have been a losing battle. But it does succeed in offering bleak, nasty and sometimes hilarious glimpses of life in the punk demimonde. Read full review
60
Time OutTom Huddleston
The performances are, of course, magnificent: Webb owns her largely thankless role, while Oldman snarls, spits and staggers like he means it, maaan. But we’re never given a reason to care about their characters, beyond the fact they were famous. Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelJay Boyar
Sid & Nancy is an honorable try, but it could have been better had Cox found a way to imbue the movie with some of the sheer zaniness of his Repo Man. Read full review
40
Washington PostPaul Attanasio
The only thing that is sustained in Sid and Nancy is a tone of clinical disinterest that leaves you asking why Cox would want to make a movie about them. By the end, you know more about Sid and Nancy than you care to, and about Alex Cox, quite a bit less than you'd like. Read full review
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