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The Doors

The ceremony is about to begin.

1991 · 2h 20m · R Drama, History, Music
Directed by Oliver Stone

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Overview

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

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All reviews
57%
Tomatometer
Rotten

For a while, the obviousness and flat-out vulgarity are sort of entertaining, and it might be possible to enjoy the movie as a camp classic if you could ignore the mean-spiritedness that keeps breaking through.

Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker
Rotten

Hysteria, however skillfully maintained, should never be mistaken for art -- a caution that applies equally to Stone and his subject.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
Rotten

While it has its moments, taken by itself, The Doors amounts to little more than an impressionistic look at a boy and his death wish.

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh

Insidiously funny and remarkably truthful about the psychedelic rock scene in the late 1960.

John Hartl, Seattle Times
Fresh

The whole movie is white hot, lapped in honeyed golds, evilly blue and black or drenched in those swoony, fiery reds. The Doors blasts your ears and scorches your eyes.

Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times

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