I Love Radio Rock

Rock Boys' Adventure, With BBC as the enemy

Boys will be boys and often at top volume in "Pirate Radio," Richard Curtis's fanciful fiction about rebel broadcasters who, in the mid-1960s, blasted British airwaves and eardrums with the Stones, the Kinks and the Who, among other youth-quaking greats of the era. Stuffed with playful character actors and carpeted with wall-to-wall tunes, the film makes for easy viewing and easier listening, even if Mr. Curtis, who wrote and directed, has nothing really to say about these rebels for whom rock 'n' roll was both life's rhyme and its reason. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (3731 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 13 novembre 2009