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03/06/09
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:39
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.1/10
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Reviews for Rebel Without a Cause
Fine generational drama-tragedy which helped give James Dean movie immortality.
02/22/08
The drama and hepcat dialogue feel clunky now, but the movie's plea for dads to talk to their children -- what we now call emotional literacy -- is valid enough.
10/23/07
For all its faults this is still the teen angst melodrama to end them all, and Dean's performance established him as an icon, a legend and a myth.
10/23/07
An unmissable film, made with a delirious compassion.
10/23/07
Top CriticIn this powerful study of juvenile violence, Dean is riveting as a teenager groping for love from a society he finds alien and oppressive.
10/23/07
Here is a fairly exciting, suspenseful and provocative, if also occasionally far-fetched, melodrama of unhappy youth on another delinquency kick.
10/23/07
Top CriticIf ever a film was haunted, it's "Rebel Without a Cause," which burns as a bright memorial for stars James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo.
06/17/07
Under Ray's dissecting eye, the suburban home itself becomes a battleground where parent and child must scream over each other to be heard
08/06/06
A fine script, dynamic direction, doomed romantic idealism and telling performances make this the most timeless of Ray's gripping, socially aware dramas.
04/01/06
Dean's finest film, hardly surprisingly in that Ray was one of the great '50s directors.
02/09/06
Like its hero, Rebel Without a Cause desperately wants to say something and doesn't know what it is. If it did know, it would lose its fascination.
01/20/06
Top CriticRebel shifts with the times
01/09/06
People like to say that Dean was nothing but a Marlon Brando imitation, but Marlon never looked this young, this perfect.
12/06/05
No review available.
10/18/05
When first released, neither studio nor critics knew what to make of it, failing to realize that it would become the most influential work in American film history
07/19/05
Profoundly romantic and lacerating in its despair.
05/23/05
Rebel really belongs entirely to Dean and his iconic red windbreaker
05/19/05
A movie for anyone who's ever been a teenager.
05/03/05
No review available.
02/05/05
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