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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : The movie has been attacked as pro-drug and defended as anti-drug, but actually it is simply pragmatic. It knows that addiction leads to an unmanageable, exhausting, intensely uncomfortable daily routine, and it knows that only two things make it bearable: a supply of the drug of choice, and the understanding of fellow addicts. more...
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3/4
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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : The overlong epilogue aside, Trainspotting is one of the summer's most arresting motion pictures, and not just because of the offbeat visual style. There's nothing new or unique about the story, but it is presented in a manner that reinforces its immediacy and impact. The film makers were determined to make this a street-level view of addiction, not some ''voyeuristic Oxbridge graduate's perception of these people''. more...
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www.cinema-scene.com - : Few films over the last few years have been as deviously funny as Trainspotting, where jokes and in-jokes run abound. For heaven's sake, where else can you find the son of Bernard Lee, M in the James Bond series during the Connery and early Moore years, spout out a trivial obsession with Connery and the Bond films. To watch and listen to Jonny Lee Miller's feelings of Pussy Galore being a misnomer is classic cinema. more...
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