 As of August 2015, the film has a rating of 89 percent on Rotten Tomatoes (based on 18 reviews; 16 "fresh" and two "rotten" — with an average rating of 6.8 out of ten), indicating mainly positive reviews. Time Out magazine praised the film, saying it "deliver [s] some great, gross, comic book capers. And rock history gets its most intelligent illustration since Mean Streets."
