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03/26/09
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:3
Rotten:8
Average Rating:4.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Based on the autobiographical journals of poet Jim Carroll, BASKETBALL DIARIES follows the descent of a Catholic high school student from star basketball player to drug addict. Jim (Leonardo... [More]
Starring: Leonardo Di Caprio, Mark Wahlberg, Lorraine Bracco, Bruno Kirby
Director: Scott Kalvert
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Reviews for The Basketball Diaries
1 - 12 (sorted by date)
Top CriticFor those few soul-freezing moments, you get a glimpse of the great actor Leonardo DiCaprio is going to be.
03/24/08
Top CriticSignificantly, the movie keeps the hero's reformation offscreen as well as unexplained; it's more interested in shock effects than in candor or elucidation.
03/24/08
Top CriticThe star shines, but the movie is hard to watch.
08/30/04
Top CriticYou leave The Basketball Diaries believing that Leonardo DiCaprio can do anything.
05/12/01
Top CriticAlthough it masquerades as a cautionary tale about the horrors of heroin, this epic of teen-age angst is more accurately seen as a reverential wallow in the gutter of self-absorption.
02/13/01
Top CriticAmazingly, though, even with Kalvert's lack of style and vision, the greatness of DiCaprio's performance is undiminished.
01/01/00
Top CriticDiCaprio goes as far into the hell of drug abuse as any actor ever has -- and comes out a star.
01/01/00
Top CriticFacile escapes are rejected, and the resolution is acceptable because we can believe it. In fact, that's the reason this film works as well as it does: credibility.
01/01/00
Top CriticA movie for masochists, an unrelentingly ugly 'Just Say No' propaganda movie, it might have been bankrolled by Nancy Reagan.
01/01/00
Top Critic
Will there ever be a market for a movie about a character who hurries past his drug phase because he can't wait to tell you what he did after he pulled his act together? Probably not.
01/01/00
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