Critic Reviews

• David Jenkins, Time Out

  Aside from the fact that each cast member employs a different style of acting, this is drably shot (Ibiza looks like Clacton), slackly edited and detached from any recognisable reality.

• Philip French, Observer [UK]

  There's a dull excursion to Ibiza where a suicide and much drug-taking ensue, and a climactic sequence shot on location at the V festival in Suffolk.

• David Edwards, Daily Mirror [UK]

  Last month, I reckoned Horrid Henry was a shoo-in for worst film of the year. Compared to Powder, however, it looks like The Battleship Potemkin.

• Derek Malcolm, This is London

  One is struck virtually dumb by a screenplay that looks as if written on the back of an envelope.

• Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]

  It's cliched and leaden, and moves with all the speed and manoeuvrability of a submarine in treacle.

• Sukhdev Sandhu, Daily Telegraph

  Great movies about bands certainly do exist. Powder isn't one of them, though.

• Eve Barlow, Empire Magazine

  Some solid scenes but it's never quite sure if it's 24 Hour Party People or Control, and doesn't get close to either.

• Jonathan Crocker, Total Film

  This indie drama puts its best foot forward, only to strut face-first through every cliché in the genre.

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