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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyEntertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyIt’s cartoonish, fast-paced, a bit cheesy, and ridiculously dumb fun.
- 63Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenLike most biopics, The Dirt crams so many events into its narrative as to compromise the sense that these are real characters in the here and now.
- 60New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottNew Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottI'm not sure how much of The Dirt is good, old-fashioned hyperbole. Good lord, I hope a lot of it is, although I'm sure the band -- the members of which wrote the book on which the film is based in addition to serving as co-producers -- would swear everything in it is true.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichThe Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichNone of it adds up to much beyond painting the band, despite their often repellently bad behavior, in a flattering light.
- 40VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanIt’s just a thinly written (by Rich Wilkes and Amanda Adelson), generically staged (by Jeff Tremaine, director of the “Jackass” films) VH1-style sketchbook of a movie — which is to say, it’s a Netflix film, with zero atmosphere, overly blunt lighting, and a threadbare post-psychological telegraphed quality that gives you nothing to read between the lines.
- 33IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichRock biopics often struggle with the part after the party’s over, but The Dirt becomes unusually adrift; at times, you can’t even tell what decade you’re supposed to be watching.
- 33The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe Dirt is ultimately supposed to be an unapologetic tribute to living the fast life, but in the end, it’s just painfully dated and pointless with zero depth or insights.
- 25RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoYou could listen to Dr. Feelgood two full times during the run time of The Dirt and learn just about as much about the band as you do in this R-rated Wikipedia article of a movie. And you’d have way more fun.
- 25The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerRock 'n’ roll biopics can be mindless fun, but they never deserve to be this empty-headed.
- 25ConsequenceDan CaffreyConsequenceDan CaffreyIts lack of energy, depth, and pure volume are, at the movie’s best, sanitized. Despite the long wait, The Dirt is nothing more than karaöke Crüe.