Crossfire Hurricane

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Crossfire Hurricane

2012,

1h 51m,

Documentary/

Biography/

Music

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89%

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85%

250+ Ratings

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27 Reviews

85%

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250+ Ratings

Filmmaker Brett Morgen examines the history of the Rolling Stones, from their London debut in 1962 as a group of blues-obsessed bad boys to their status as the "World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band."

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Alan Sepinwall

HitFix

Nov 16, 2012

B+

If Crossfire Hurricane doesn't offer much that's new, or tell a spellbinding story along the way, it still vividly captures how they became legends in the first place.

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Glenn Gamboa

Newsday

Nov 16, 2012

B

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards aren't afraid to keep it real. Both show some interesting insights into their success, with Jagger revealing how he portrays a different character for each of the band's singles.

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Leslie Felperin

Variety

Nov 16, 2012

This tribute to the Rolling Stones offers a blizzard of archive material nimbly sutured together with interviews with the Stones themselves, making this a succinct, officially sanctioned but not necessarily fawning history of the band.

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John Powers

NPR's Fresh Air

May 18, 2018

As Crossfire Hurricane reminds us, the Stones were consciously designed to occupy a less reputable place in the pop zeitgeist... They embodied psychic danger, a Dionysian force flirting with all manner of uncontrollable sensuality and violence.

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Rod Lockwood

Toledo Blade

May 31, 2013

If you're expecting a comprehensive chronological cataloging of the Stones and all their exploits, prepare to be sorely disappointed.

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Rebecca Barry Hill

Flicks (AU, NZ, UK)

Nov 29, 2012

4/5

Hammers home [the Stones'] amazing, timeless appeal.

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Han R

Feb 27, 2019

made you like them-can't help think that it was a promotional project-great music and drug days interesting.

Poe S

Mar 22, 2017

Watched this tonight

Finn W

Mar 11, 2017

It was interesting and informative. They decided to have audio instead of video recordings of interviews, which was nice in an aesthetic way, but it'd have been nice if they'd told us whose voices were whose. It was kind of hard to tell who was doing the voiceover at times

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Brett Morgen examines the history of the Rolling Stones, from their London debut in 1962 as a group of blues-obsessed bad boys to their status as the "World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band."

Director: Brett Morgen
Producer: Mick Jagger, Victoria Pearman
Screenwriter: Brett Morgen
Production Co: Milkwood Films
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Runtime: 1h 51m

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