Critics reviews

Mutrux captures with a sharp, furtive eye the crevices of public life that the drug trade fills (particular attention is paid to phone booths), and scenes of Mephistophelian kingpins show that the moral rot of drugs runs through all levels of society.

Mutrux’s heavily researched and remarkably assured debut plays like a precursor to Martin Bell’s observational documentary Streetwise (1984). Dusty should’ve launched Mutrux’s career. Instead, the movie merely froze it. Warner Bros. distributed Dusty, but had a change of heart. They shelved the film after only a week in theaters. They equated Mutrux’s non-judgmental approach to heroin use with endorsement.