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Spike Island (15)

Drama, Music

A rising indie band travels to Spike Island, Cheshire, in May of 1990 to see The Stone Roses.


The critical consensus

Fluffed notes, bit messy, but scattered with heart, highs and songs to hum. Like the Roses’ career, Whitecross’s baggy love-in is saggy but also energised and endearing.

***(*)(*)Kevin Harley, Total Film, 12/10/2012

Bowl haircuts and Mancunian affectations abound in an electric, earnest, hazy portrayal of Madchester’s glory days, but since a bunch of mates going to a pop concert does not, by itself, possess enough narrative oomph to drive a film, the script does over-rely on maudlin Britfilm tropes: the domestic abuse victim, the terminally ill parent, the teenage love triangle.

***(*)(*)John Nugent, The Skinny, 17/06/2013

It’s hard to see who the film is aimed at, teenagers or nostalgic forty-somethings? There doesn’t seem enough for either.

**(*)(*)(*)James Mottram, The List, 17/06/2013

It’s a bit ramshackle but good fun and enjoyably nostalgic.

***(*)(*)Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 20/06/2013

If he wants to know how teenagers can be witty and rueful and filthy at once, he should watch The Inbetweeners. The heady whirl of the Roses' first album played loud is a treat – the only one.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 20/06/2013

It's a likable, amiable movie, and a nice reminder of the roaring 90s.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 20/06/2013

Following Made Of Stone, this is another slice of nostalgia for baggies of a certain age.

***(*)(*)Dan Jolin, Empire Online, 21/06/2013

Less a double-bill accompaniment to Meadow's movie, more a solid second-feature – albeit one that happens to be taking to the stage after the main act.

Mark Kermode, The Observer, 23/06/2013

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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