Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "Gee's arty manipulation of rock-doc staples has a vitality worthy of the music, making decayed bootleg footage luminous..." 06/01/2008 p.50Sight and Sound "Director Grant Gee finds a style that reboots the hallucinatory modernism in Factory studio production and the underground music video of the early 1980s..." 05/01/2008 p.70-71 Empire 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t hinges around vintage footage and entertaining anecdotes within a slick, visually inventive format." 06/01/2008 52 Uncut 4 stars out of 5 -- "JOY DIVISION is a resounding, absorbing success....[The] film reminds us how urgent, alive and abrasive that music remains, the vital alternatives it still offers." 06/01/2008 p.119 |