In the mid- to late ’70s, the Runaways, a packaged group of choppy-haired teen-glam feline punkettes from L.A., 
did for girls playing power chords what the Sex Pistols did for beer-spewing anarchy. Not that they were very popular. (They were huge in Japan…and that’s about it.) If anything, the Runaways seem cooler now than they did then; it’s only in hindsight that they come off as fearless trailblazers rather than as a novelty act. The most entertaining thing about The Runaways, a highly watchable if mostly run-of-the-mill group biopic, is that its writer-director, Floria Sigismondi, has a sixth sense for how the Runaways were bad-angel icons first and a rock & roll band second.

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‘The Runaways’ is getting great reviews across the board, with most critics rating the film between B and C grades. As most of you will know, the movie is only playing in selected theaters at present but will be released nationwide on April 9th 2010. If you want to take a read of some more reviews of the movie, click here to take a look.