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Rock Star (2001) Rank 2 Reviews
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El Criticon (Antonio Méndez Casanova)
cinEncanto (Pablo del Moral)
New York Times (A.O. Scott)
Has enough wit and insight to make it worth watching. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at New York Times (A.O. Scott)
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) (Tom Grealis)
Forget the storyline, just laugh (and cringe) at the period. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) (Tom Grealis)
Jacksonville Film Journal (Shay Casey)
Most of the opening scenes are a lot of fun. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Jacksonville Film Journal (Shay Casey)
Washington Post (Rita Kempley)
It's fresh and funny while Chris is still struggling with his detractors. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Washington Post (Rita Kempley)
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Moviola (Jorge G. Avila Andrade)
Xi-online (Edward van der Lugt)
Boxoffice Magazine
Cineclub-Filmkritik
Eigentlich waren wir ja alle froh als die 80er vorbei waren. Frauen durften wieder BHs tragen und Männer konnten wieder Hosen tragen, die nicht aussahen wie Leggins. Doch kaum sind wir im neuen Jahrtausend, werden wir mit 80er-Revival-Filmen bedacht, ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Cineclub-Filmkritik
Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
Anyone who has played air guitar at some point in his/her life may find something in this film that will pluck a heartstring or two. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
Chicago Tribune (Mark Caro)
The movie can't quite embrace its characters or their scene; Wahlberg even cracks a joke over the end credits that heralds the late-'80s ascendance of hip-hop, which, of course, spawned Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Chicago Tribune (Mark Caro)
Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
Never so awful that it warps into campy hilarity, nor is it ever so good that it threatens to become even remotely worthy. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
Fantastica Daily (Mervius)
There's no bite. And bite is pretty much the first ingredient that should be included in a movie about heavy metal, don't you think? ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Fantastica Daily (Mervius)
Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Summons every cliche of the rock world and then clings to the hoary scenarios with the fiercest gravity. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Minneapolis Star Tribune (Jeff Strickler)
It is a nonstop cliche. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Minneapolis Star Tribune (Jeff Strickler)
DVD Talk (Jason Bovberg)
New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)
It's sweet but not the least bit plausible that any kid in the mid-'80s would be surprised that along with rock 'n' roll come sex and drugs. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)
Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Rock Star sinks into a morass of melodrama. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
Cinema in Focus (Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Jigsaw Lounge (Neil Young)
Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)
Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
Rock Star roars to life with a promise of something inspired and inventive whenever Wahlberg leaps onstage. Offstage, however, even he can't breathe life into this same old song. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Stephen Herek's Rock Star, based loosely on the shenanigans surrounding the change in lead singers for the band Judas Priest, plays like a modern-day fairy tale. Unfortunately, as in many fables, the characters are less clearly delineated than their moral ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
New Times (L.A.) (Robert Wilonsky)
Rock Star takes itself so seriously it becomes full-on parody -- "This Is Spinal Tap" as a sanctimonious cautionary tale. And how rock 'n' roll is ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at New Times (L.A.) (Robert Wilonsky)
TV Guide (Ken Fox)
Herek does capture the rush and crush of a stadium concert, and the music (more Leppard than Priest) isn't half bad -- in a disposable, arena-rock sort of way. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at TV Guide (Ken Fox)
Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
Like the type of music it celebrates, Rock Star is just a lot of posing, adding up to very little. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
Portland Oregonian (Kim Morgan)
Somewhere along the way, Stephen Herek's Rock Star decided to become a dippy, cliche-ridden drama and, worse, an odd indictment of metal music. Joy. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Portland Oregonian (Kim Morgan)
eFilmCritic.com (The Grinch)
Film Threat (Heather Wadowski)
Despite its flaws, screenwriters Callie Khouri and John Stockwell still manage to save Rock Star by writing a semi-entertaining script. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Film Threat (Heather Wadowski)
Film Values/Family Values (H. Arthur Taussig)
Condemns the rock lifestyle as empty and unrewarding, but glorifies it with a world of fame, debauchery, freedom, and drugs. Guilty pleasure for adults, dangerous for teens. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Film Values/Family Values (H. Arthur Taussig)
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
As his star rises, the film slides completely into cliché. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
...an earnest effort to be satiric...a paint-by-the-numbers affair rather than a genuine work of art...a snapshot of a modern rock singer rather than a telling portrait. ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
Variety (Robert Koehler)
Feels particularly like old news after the risks of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle were laid out for the previously uninformed in last year's "Almost ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Variety (Robert Koehler)
Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Rock Star neither touches a raw nerve nor garners any resonance as a period piece. You'd be better off renting "This is Spinal ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
USA Today (Claudia Puig)
When it's not aspiring, unsuccessfully, to satirize the world of metallica, Rock Star veers into even drearier territory and becomes a head-banging, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll version of "A Star Is ...read the complete Rock Star movie review at USA Today (Claudia Puig)
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