Performance.

Name: Performance.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1970-08-03
Rating: 6.8

See them all in a film about fantasy. And reality. Vice. And versa.

CrimeDrama1h 46m

🍅81%

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81%

Tomatometer

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78%

Popcornmeter

6.8

TMDB

Storyline

In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive.

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Details

ReleasedAug 3, 1970

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

$900.5K

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideNot rated

Studio

Goodtimes Enterprises

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

5 fresh · 2 rotten

Critics consensus

“Performance is an exuberant and grimy ode to the sexual revolution, evoking cultural upheaval and identity crisis with rock 'n' roll verve and a beguiling turn by Mick Jagger.”

81% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Budd Wilkins

RTSlant MagazineMar 4, 2025

The film remains a beguiling time capsule—sensual, cerebral, both ode to and threnody for a very specific time and place.

Adam Nayman

RTThe RingerNov 26, 2018

Critics hated it, and Warner Bros. barely saw fit to release it, but Performance has endured as a cult favorite. It's also arguably the greatest-ever big-screen showcase for Jagger...

Kate Muir

RTThe Times (UK)Jul 23, 2015

With a pleasurably peculiar cast of James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, Performance is one of the weirdest slices of Seventies London around, combining gangster violence and ritual humiliation with decaying rock-star glamour.

Matt Brunson

RTFilm FrenzyMar 2, 2025

It’s easy to see why Performance has both attracted and offended.