Trainspotting (1995)

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02/09/06

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

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a movie that dares to challenge the audience

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04/17/01

Almar Haflidason

BBC

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Exuberant and pitiless, profane yet eloquent, flush with the ability to create laughter out of unspeakable situations, "Trainspotting" is a drop-dead look at a dead-end lifestyle that has all the strength of its considerable contradictions.

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02/14/01

Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

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For better or worse, sometimes strictly for the sake of shock value, the stylish irreverence of "Trainspotting" mimics that drug high and delivers its own potent kick.

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01/01/00

Janet Maslin

New York Times

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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

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01/01/00

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

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