The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson confronts our worst nightmares of impending death and turns them upside down. It tells the extraordinary, yet universal story of legendary musician Wilko Johnson who, diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given a few months to live, accepted his fate with uplifting positivity and embarked on a farewell tour, capturing the imagination of the world as he went. But like every good story Wilko's has a damn fine twist in its tail. Two years later and confounding the odds, Wilko wakes up in a hospital bed, unexpectedly sentenced to live, having now to integrate those enlightened lessons learnt under sentence of death into the unexpected and ongoing future of his life.
The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson has generally received very positive reviews.
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By Tom Huddleston (600) for Time Out (7,510) on 12 Jul 2015
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The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson was released in 2015 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 11 reviews, giving The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (2015) an average rating of 79%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 88%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 78%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson than critics were.
With a score of 79%, The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2015, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2015 with similar scores include films like Sicario, Ex Machina and Straight Outta Compton.
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