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By Ericg. (11) on 11 Feb 2008

Riley gives a great performance as Ian Curtis, hitting the character perfectly (not just voice or attitude, but also those small little gestures…

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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 Ef (2) on 17 Nov 2007

Beautiful but boring…

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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 Williamg. (3) on 05 Nov 2007

Brilliant. I loved it through and through…

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By Davidw. (26) on 05 Nov 2007

An outstanding biopic…

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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 Thatmoveguy (1) on 03 Nov 2007

Control, above all else, truly captures the total apathy towards life necessary in any person's mind to take their own life…

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