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'Pirate Radio' Sinks Due to Flat Characters and Abundant Movie Clichesnew

On the upside, Pirate Radio is beautifully shot. It's loaded with the kind of cinematic trickery that was popular back in the '60s. So if you were tripping on five hits of acid, and your heightened consciousness was somehow filtering out all the dialogue, it would be a pretty good movie.
Tucson Weekly  |  James DiGiovanna  |  11-18-2009  |  Reviews

'Pirate Radio': Good Music. Terrible Movie.new

Rock 'n' roll is great. But no matter how powerful, majestic, or even life changing three chords and the truth can be, rock 'n' roll cannot save Pirate Radio.
The Portland Mercury  |  Ezra Ace Caraeff  |  11-13-2009  |  Reviews

'Pirate Radio' Rocks the Boatnew

This is one of those ensemble comedies in which each member of the ensemble tends toward one-dimensionality, but that's OK because there are so many members, and they're all so talented.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Jonathan Kiefer  |  11-11-2009  |  Reviews

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