Critic Reviews

• Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

  A movie of shopworn riffs and borrowed noise, dressed up with considerable surface polish and glam production values.

• Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

  Garage Days feels like a movie that belongs in the garage; it's where you put things that you can't quite dismiss, but don't really like enough to have cluttering up your actual living quarters.

• Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News

  The jokes are as lame as they are tame.

• Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

  Though the storytelling is a bit lopsided, the slapdash quality is charming overall, and the movie benefits from colorful characters and a couple of hilarious scenes.

• Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

  The characters are often sketchy at best.

• Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

  Amiable but oddly amateurish.

• Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

  ...While the narrative is slight and trite, it is also well-observed

• Wesley Lovell, Apollo Guide

  A fantastically fun film even though it lacks lavish spectacle.

• Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, TheMovieChicks.com

  I wouldn't want to hang out with these cats and I certainly wouldn't want them practicing in my garage, it's bad enough to sit through their movie.

• Josh Bell, Las Vegas Weekly

  Its sense of fun is infectious enough that it doesn't make a huge difference that it's light on the story side. Coupled with the visual style and the top-notch choice of music, it makes for a fun, if lightweight, experience.

• Adam Nayman, eye WEEKLY

  Proyas is relentless in his attempts to infuse the material with visual zip, and in doing so, he only exacerbates its flimsiness.

• Mark Umbach, FilmStew.com

  While the plot line may not be overly complicated and Lynchian, it is in no way formulaic or simple either. Proyas leaves you wanting you to see his characters thrive, not necessarily as a band, but as friends.

• Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

  The music in it is uniformly lousy, but one doesn't notice because everything surrounding it s even worse.

• MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher

  Its tricksy stylishness... is more of a distraction than a tonic for the feeling that we've seen all this before.

• Spyder Darling,

  Despite plenty of drugs and a fair amount of sex, Garage Days asphyxiates from a lethal lack of rock'n roll.

• Rob Vaux, Flipside Movie Emporium

  Proyas strays from the formula just often enough to keep us on our toes. The remainder is too slight and harmless to really condemn... even when it slips into cliché.

• David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

  ...[Alex Proyas'] over-the-top sensibility keeps this admittedly routine storyline from becoming an all-out bore.

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