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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten Review

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5.0

Dave White Profile

… it stays fascinating … Read full review

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  • 4.0
    79

    out of 100

    Metascore®
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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune

    Its moving narrative requires little in the way of embellishment, but Temple’s documentary sometimes becomes too clever for its own good.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

    The film is a rigorously thorough biography and an impassioned accolade. Temple spends as much time on Strummer's life before and after the Clash as he does charting the band's powerful musical and political influence.

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  • 83

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Captures the Joe Strummer who, in the late 1970s, just about firebombed the rock establishment with his fury.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    The film is much more than a biography of the Clash's guitarist and lead singer: It's history, criticism, philosophy and politics, played fast and loud.

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