Performances like the ones in this film go beyond movie acting and into some kind of evocation of real lives. Vicious is played by Gary Oldman and Spungen is played by Chloe Webb, and there isn’t even a brief period at the top of the movie where we have to get used to them. They are these people, driven and relentless. – Roger Ebert

“Sid and Nancy has some claim on being the finest British film of the 1980s.” – New Statesman