The Filth and the Fury

Temple's wonderfully entertaining film brings the era back in all its confused and tentatively revolutionary glory, and bracingly demonstrates that the Pistols still have the power to shock.

Anyone who can watch this film and deny that the Sex Pistols were one of the four or five most exciting and indelibly brilliant rock groups ever is pumping formaldehyde, not blood, through his veins.

If nothing else, The Filth and the Fury is a searing, forceful, entertainingly biased reminder only that the English group mattered - as musicians and as anti-social curs.

Stays with you, though, not because of its political content, but because of the unexpected emotional punch that's thrown near the end.

Electrifying.

Efficiently and imaginatively directed.

It's just twice as much as we need to know about the Sex Pistols.