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by Peter Bradshaw

This adaptation of Kevin Sampson's 90s-novel about the Britpop era could have been great, but it's let down by shoddy dialogue and leaden pacingKevin Sampson has adapted his own 1999 novel about a fictional Britpop-era band and the result is a mess. A drama that could have been either powerful and moving like Anton Corbijn's Control, or conceivably funny and punchy like Nick Hamm's Killing Bono is just a drag; it's c…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:15pm on August 25, 2011