Spun: Critic Reviews

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 84 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

Accomplished, but it's also numbing.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)

70

If Spun doesn't glamorize the world it surveys, its parade of reeling potty-mouthed clowns (especially Mr. Rourke's cowboy chemist) still exudes a kind of doomy charisma.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

Full Review » 8 years ago
Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

Mistakes flash for cleverness.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

A great deal of energy is spent setting the thing up, bringing it off and then, post-rush, it just sort of drifts off into nowhere and goes still.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

38

The Core is not the only disaster flick opening today, and it's doubtful that the folks in that movie can save the urchins on crystal meth in Spun.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jessica Winter Village Voice (Top Critic)

The traumatized critic must struggle to avoid capital letters in urging patrons to steer clear of the colorfully cast but unbearable Spun.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

0

This movie is less than zero.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

The movie is like the low-rent, road show version of those serious drug movies where everybody is macho and deadly.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Loren King Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

63

[Akerlund] has effectively created a head-spinning, flesh-crawling milieu all his own, but Spun is ultimately short on substance and long on style.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

Spun is slummishly stylish, occasionally funny, and pretty much devoid of meaning.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

25

This drug drama has enough drugs to stock a hospital but precious little in the way of drama.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

40

A loud, disorderly descent into narcissism, a movie so in love with itself that its gaze rarely leaves the mirror.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Megan Lehmann New York Post (Top Critic)

38

All flash, no substance.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

40

It never quite convinces you this is anything but a fashion shoot.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

38

A placebo of a film.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jeff Stark Salon.com (Top Critic)

This tale of Southern California speed freaks works too hard for its high.
Full Review » 9 years ago
David Hunter Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Virtuoso cinema that mercilessly holds a light up to wasted lives but also comes down off its high to make us care about these lost souls.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Manohla Dargis Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

20

In Spun, the nightmare never ends for the pretty young Hollywood things like Mena Suvari and Brittany Murphy who play methamphetamine dress-up with pasted-on pimples and brushed-on bruises.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Empire Magazine

60

Full Review » 5 years ago
Derek Adams Time Out

Full Review » 6 years ago
Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena

40

Mesmo com seu otimo elenco, esta copia sem personalidade de Vamos Nessa! e Requiem para um Sonho e o exemplo perfeito da expressao 'muito estilo para pouco conteudo'.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Jean-Francois Vandeuren Panorama

30

Une bien mauvaise caricature.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Bullz-Eye.com

70

Full Review » 7 years ago
Jordan Hiller Bangitout.com

0

Madly arranged in one ambivalent, entirely creative work that attempts not only to convey a feeling, but a sense of experience
Full Review » 7 years ago