4/5

Um filme repleto de planos magnificamente compostos e que se tornam ainda mais impactantes graças à impecável fotografia em preto-e-branco de Martin Ruhe.

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05/26/08

4/5

(Curtis) was such an unfortunate man - just a boy really - whose existence was snuffed out by a lifestyle he could not possibly avoid.

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05/25/08

N/A

Positioning art as a necessary surrender to a creative force which removes the self dangerously from existence and society, Control intimately connects in tragic yet euphoric ways to the mixed blessing of the radically unleashed musical imagination.

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03/30/08

C+

Some of Riley's musical performances are electrifying. This would not be a bad movie at all, except for the infuriatingly romantic portrayal of suicide.

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03/06/08

3/5

More expressive than Gus Van Sant's "Last Days" about a tragic music figure, but incrementally so.

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01/19/08

3/6

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01/18/08

C+

Tells me more than I care to know about the ill-fated singer with a personality like talcum powder and songs fit to make the depressed even more depressed.

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01/16/08

85/100

Riley gives a great performance, and director Corbijn's direction is deceptively perceptive. One of the year's best.

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01/01/08

3/4

The monochromatic palette suggests the kitchen-sink heyday of 1960s British cinema; fittingly, 'Control' is at its best when it concentrates on the quotidian.

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12/21/07

3/4

Control humanizes Curtis while acknowledging that he could be remote and even cruel in his selfishness and despair.

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12/14/07

2.5/4

Joy Division fans have already embraced Control, a film biography of short-lived lead singer Ian Curtis. Those of us who didn't follow the 1970s English band or the post-punk scene around it may feel less invested.

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12/07/07

4.5/5

[An] absorbing and ultimately harrowing look at Ian Curtis' short, unhappy life.

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12/07/07

B

A wobbly construction of facts, but as musical bio-pics go, it has real cinematic personality and avoids most of the painful clichés that tend to shadow these productions...you can sense Deborah's script-approval fingerprints all over the material.

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12/06/07

N/A

Sam Riley is fascinating as Curtis, a hypersensitive young man hobbled by his incurable disease, and Samantha Morton is poignant as his put-upon wife.

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12/03/07

A-

Even if you have no interest in Joy Division, this picture is worth seeing for the unsentimental empathy and passion of the moviemaking.

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11/22/07

4.5/5

Control is easily one of the finest films ever made about the collision of music, madness, and the human heart.

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11/17/07

B

Where many biopic actors simply dress like the subject and re-enact his or her life, Riley truly conveys Ian's heart and soul.

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11/14/07