Metacritic Movie Ratings
The Runaways Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  Its interest comes from Shannon's fierce and sadistic training scenes as Kim Fowley, and from the intrinsic qualities of the performances by Stewart and Fanning, who bring more to their characters than the script provides.

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• 75

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  It's an artistic and authentic evocation of an era but a rather surface-skimming story of the '70s all-girl rock band fronted by Joan Jett and Cherie Currie. If anything, it just makes you want to know more about Jett's back story and Currie's subsequent life.

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• 70

  out of 100

  VarietyDennis Harvey

  A conventionally enjoyable making-and-breaking-of-the-band saga.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

  The movie may be a little too tame in the end, but at its best it is just wild enough.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  The vigor and pace is electric, and the movie features three showy performances by Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning and Michael Shannon.

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• 67

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  The 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.

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• 60

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey

  The problem with The Runaways is that they went with the wrong girl.

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