Stoned
Screen Media Films | Release Date: March 24, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
12
Negative:
6
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63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
It's a depressing story made even more of a downer by the absence of any Stones-performed music from their prime '60s years. Read full review
63
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Newcomer Gregory never captures the mercurial charisma for which Jones was famous (and which Jagger notoriously channeled in his movie debut, "Performance"), without which his story is just another cautionary tale about fast times, intemperate passions and bad dope. Read full review
63
New York PostKyle Smith
Stoned carries a freaked-out buzz of nostalgia for the era when celebs willfully destroyed themselves for our amusement. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The good news here is that Woolley and his writers have taken the mystery surrounding Jones' tragic 1969 death as their main interest, and have adopted as fact the long-cherished rumor that the blond rocker's drowning was a case of murder. It may be speculative history, but at least it's a story. Read full review
60
Film ThreatFelix Vasques Jr.
A must for any true rock aficionado. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Thorogood allegedly confessed on his deathbed (in 1993) that he killed Jones, and while the movie convinces us that this might have happened, it never truly reveals who Brian Jones was before he fell apart. His indulgence, and his demise, play out in a void. Read full review
50
PremiereEthan Alter
A clichéd rock-star film. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
Despite good performances from Gregory, Considine and especially David Morrissey, the movie's true merits are all on the surface: its uncannily authentic period reconstruction and its successful use of stressed and textured film stocks. The filmmakers care more about this than about their characters, and it's hard for us not to feel the same. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill White
The soundtrack is a mess, with period music out of sync with the period, as when the 1967 song, "White Rabbit," underscores a 1965 acid trip. Read full review
50
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Its title may ring with pun and promise, but Stoned is a flat riff on Jones's short life. You'll get the highlights but no sense of what made him special -- or what really haunted him. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Apart from Considine, the actors all deliver superficial performances beneath several layers of slathered-on Summer Of Love drag, and Woolley's use of multiple film stocks and flash-cut editing jumbles together a bunch of '60s filmmaking clichés without putting them to any particular use. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
This UK drama by Stephen Woolley, a longtime producer for Neil Jordan making his directing debut, presents a fairly convincing version of what might have happened. Read full review
40
VarietyLeslie Felperin
The film's sputtering dramatic engine, underwhelming perfs, and absence of music by the Stones themselves may leave the key younger demographic wondering what all the fuss is about. Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Stoned accomplishes the unlikely feat of making the golden years before medical science and the law caught up with rock culture look dull. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
Fans of the band will likely be disappointed (its music is represented by a handful of covers), and younger audiences will wonder what the fuss is about. Read full review
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
What we really need from Stoned, the very thing that it fails to give us, is a sense of Jones as a human being. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
All the pieces are in place for an incisive tale of Brit-pop ego and madness, but filmmaker Stephen Woolley -- a celebrated UK producer ("The Crying Game") making his directing debut -- lets the story get away from him. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Glaringly lacking in the film are any original Stones songs. The group, who fired Jones just before his death, must not have thought much of the movie if they didn't allow their music to be used. Smart fellows. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
A disappointingly dreary affair. Read full review
30
Village VoiceJessica Winter
The rock hero starts out dead and so does the movie. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Could 1960s-style sex, drugs and rock & roll really have been this dull? Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleJoel Selvin
Almost so bad it's good. Almost. Read full review
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