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By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

The film leaves you with the impression of an almost painfully innocent young singer, for whom alienation was, alas, far more than a pose…

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By Shawn Levy (1,238) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 20 Sep 2008

Can a movie about such a fellow and such a fate be lovely? And can it uplift? Control is and, in its artfulness, does…

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By Prairie Miller (985) for NewsBlaze (855) on 30 Mar 2008

Positioning art as a necessary surrender to a creative force which removes the self dangerously from existence and society, Control intimately…

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By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 22 Feb 2008

Ian's trapped between insurrection and guilt, and so is Corbijn's film which mires itself in the artist's bourgeoisie dramas without figuring…

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By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

Smashes the music biopic mold by portraying the star at its center not as a mythological creature, but as a real-life, messed-up kid in over his head…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 16 Jan 2008

Tells me more than I care to know about the ill-fated singer with a personality like talcum powder and songs fit to make the depressed even…

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By Garth Franklin (268) for Dark Horizons (452) on 15 Jan 2008

Part of the reason this film works so splendidly is that, given its ending, it doesn't have the luxury of pretend redemption…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 21 Dec 2007

The monochromatic palette suggests the kitchen-sink heyday of 1960s British cinema; fittingly, 'Control' is at its best when it concentrates…

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By Derek Donovan (4) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 14 Dec 2007

Control humanizes Curtis while acknowledging that he could be remote and even cruel in his selfishness and despair…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 06 Dec 2007

A wobbly construction of facts, but as musical bio-pics go, it has real cinematic personality and avoids most of the painful clichés that…

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By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Dec 2007

Sam Riley is fascinating as Curtis, a hypersensitive young man hobbled by his incurable disease, and Samantha Morton is poignant as his put-upon wife…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 17 Nov 2007

Even though we're aware of the tragic trajectory of the singer's life, for a while it almost seems as if reality got it wrong and Curtis might…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 14 Nov 2007

Where many biopic actors simply dress like the subject and re-enact his or her life, Riley truly conveys Ian's heart and soul…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 14 Nov 2007

The film's examination of Curtis' seeming passivity from a distance grants his mythology%u2014as damaged, resistant rock star%u2014a kind of…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 09 Nov 2007

The movie has the same emotional directness as a Joy Division song…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 08 Nov 2007

It's not as overwhelmingly dark and depressing as might be expected…

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By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 08 Nov 2007

Curtis' story is scant and unremarkable, filled with every rock 'n roll cliché save for drug addiction, but Corbijn treats it as though it's…

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By John Wenzel (20) for Denver Post (1,096) on 03 Nov 2007

The film nails both the malaise and creative vigor of Curtis' short, bruised and chillingly relatable life…

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By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 03 Nov 2007

Sam Riley, a newcomer to the big screen who portrays Curtis with eerie accuracy, has the stringy, underfed looks of a schoolboy in the midst…

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By Beth Accomando (509) for KPBS.org (509) on 02 Nov 2007

Control is a brilliant feature debut by Corbijn, and a compelling portrait of the life and art of the late Ian Curtis…

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