SummaryOn October 12th 1978 New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a 20 year-old woman, slumped under the bathroom sink in a hotel room. She was dressed in her underwear and had bled to death from a stab wound. The woman was Nancy Spungen, an ex-prostitute, sometimes stripper, heroin addict, and girlfriend of Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious. I... Read More
Directed By:Alan G. Parker
Who Killed Nancy?
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The film offers evidence that Vicious spent the entire night out cold on barbiturates. It plants resonant doubts.
50
Fails as a detective story, but it does offer an entertaining look at the punk scene in the 1970s.
40
The eyewitness testimony of dozens of punk-era survivors and hotel denizens has a disorienting effect, and everyone gets sidetracked, though the colorful anecdotes are priceless.
40
For an exposé very little is actually revealed, but as a neon-lit trawl through '70s New York, it's worth a look.
30
An unruly mash-up of terrific anecdotes and terrible teeth, grainy film and garish memories, Who Killed Nancy? cares less about investigating a death than about vindicating an accused killer.
30
An unnecessary retelling of rock's dingiest "legend"--ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
20
Simply casting doubts isn't the same as making a compelling counterargument-or crafting a coherent film.
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