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36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe three leads provide convincing performances, with Dakota Fanning being the standout.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe vigor and pace is electric, and the movie features three showy performances by Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning and Michael Shannon.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyA conventionally enjoyable making-and-breaking-of-the-band saga.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceIn The Runaways' first hour, there's a guttural pleasure to be had in riding waves of rock-movie cliché spiked with socio-sexual commentary. The movie is at its best when working through the contradictions of teen sex-for-sale, when it's both turn-on and creep-out.
- 70Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzThe Runaways broke new ground. And if "The Runaways" doesn't, it's still a movie worth watching - and listening to.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe most entertaining thing about The Runaways, a highly watchable if mostly run-of-the-mill group biopic, is that its writer-director, Floria Sigismondi, has a sixth sense for how the Runaways were bad-angel icons first and a rock & roll band second.
- 60Boxoffice MagazineRay GreeneBoxoffice MagazineRay GreeneFar from a perfect movie, but there are moments when it comes about as close to catching the visceral kick of the pre-iPod rock experience as any film I've ever seen.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfThere's lots of volume in these tunes--the soundtrack is killer--and at least everyone gets their rocks off.
- 50New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinIn patches it's agreeably lurid, but it's otherwise ho-hum.
- 50ObserverSara VilkomersonObserverSara VilkomersonIt's when the music stops that we run into problems. For starters, there are so many questions left unanswered.