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Trainspotting
83
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100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It would be hard to imagine a movie about drugs, depravity, and all-around bad behavior more electrifying than Trainspotting.
100
Film.com
Film.com
Keeps you engaged in this story of a memorable anti-hero for our times.
100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Heroin may be a downer, but Trainspotting definitely takes you up…a series of roaring, provocative, outrageous highs. [26 July 1996, Friday, p.C]
90
TNT RoughCut
TNT RoughCut
Irresistibly bleak appeal.
87
Mr. Showbiz
F. X. Feeney
Mr. Showbiz
F. X. Feeney
It's a disturbing film in the best sense.
80
Film.com
John Hartl
Film.com
John Hartl
Ewan McGregor in a raw, funny, star-making performance.
80
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A must-see.
80
Newsweek
Newsweek
Artfully ambivalent, Danny Boyle's film, twists with a junkie's logic. It does not preach; it wallows in the pain and, more daringly, in the pleasure.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It uses a colorful vocabulary, it contains a lot of energy, it elevates its miserable heroes to the status of icons (in their own eyes, that is).
70
TV Guide Magazine
Frank Lovece
TV Guide Magazine
Frank Lovece
Captures the way drug addiction gives structure and purpose to aimless lives, and evokes the breathtaking rapture of a fix. All this and a happy ending, too.
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