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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
Dean's finest film, hardly surprisingly in that Ray was one of the great '50s directors.
02/09/06
Ray, who told stories that were 'bigger than life' and pulsing with 'hot blood,' was one of the most dynamic directors of the American screen.
01/01/00
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
Profoundly romantic and lacerating in its despair.
05/23/05
There are some excruciating flashes of accuracy and truth in this film.
05/20/03
Top CriticRebel Without a Cause (1955) is most remembered for being the film that best presented the talent of young charismatic cult star James Dean,
01/01/00
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 CriticA 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
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
The performances of James Dean and Sal Mineo plus the presence of some potent scenes of adolescent angst give the film vitality and validity.
01/01/00
An unmissable film, made with a delirious compassion.
10/23/07
Top CriticEast of Eden is definitely the stronger movie, but this performance is likely to be the one that tugged and forever defined the unexplainable angst of youth.
12/08/02
People like to say that Dean was nothing but a Marlon Brando imitation, but Marlon never looked this young, this perfect.
12/06/05
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 CriticWhen 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
This period piece represents the best Hollywood film about rebellious and alienated youth of the 1950's.
04/17/01
A movie for anyone who's ever been a teenager.
05/03/05
It sides with the rebellious youths.
01/01/00
An indelible vision of a pretty 1950s America with a searing crack in it.
01/01/00
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