The Runaways

Nathan Rabin

There is a fascinating film to be made about Fowleys slick commoditization of adolescent rebellion, but in her numbingly familiar feature length debut, writer director Floria Sigismondi apparently isnt interested in Fowley so much as she is in giving rock n roll movie conventions a distaff spin. ( Read More )

There is a fascinating film to be made about Fowleys slick commoditization of adolescent rebellion, but in her numbingly familiar feature length debut, writer director Floria Sigismondi apparently isnt interested in Fowley so much as she is in giving rock n roll movie conventions a distaff spin. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

An all girl rock band is named and trained by a rock manager of dubious sexuality, goes on the road, hits the charts, has a lesbian member and another who becomes a sex symbol, but crashes from drugs.This is the plot of a 1970 film named Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which inadvertently anticipated the saga of the Runaways five years later. ( Read More )

S. Jhoanna Robledo

But yes, there is a stipulation: The whole enterprise doesnt fully gel.Like a band missing that secret ingredient that lifts them from relative anonymity. ( Read More )

Tom Huddleston

The result is an entertaining mess: lively and stylish, but frustratingly inconsequential. ( Read More )