Rumble Fish Reviews
Nick's Flick Picks
Rumble Fish is like a unisex Sweet 16 gift for children whose favorite hangouts are the pool hall, the Cinématheque Française, and the rings of Saturn.
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| Original Score: B
Common Sense Media
Teen-gang saga is more intense, violent than the book.
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| Original Score: 3/5
If Rumble Fish fails as a traditional movie about real people, it is beguiling as an exercise in hallucinatory style.
Empire Magazine
A bit too over-stylized to allow for any great involvement, the most interesting part of this is spotting the young actors before they became stars -- most notably nephew-of-the-director Nicolas Cage.
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| Original Score: 3/5
DVD Clinic
An offbeat experiment that, while certainly not a brilliant movie, flies far more than it fails.
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| Original Score: 4/5
This is a movie you are likely to hate, unless you can love it for its crazy, feverish charm.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Art for adolscents, tricked out in quasi-seriousness. Once hip, now amusing.
| Original Score: 3/5
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Give it a try. It might change your life.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Film4
An iconic outsider of 1980s teen cinema, Rumble Fish remains an intriguing anomaly on Coppola's chequered CV.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A seminal work in teen films, shot appropriately in B/W (except for the fish).
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| Original Score: B+
Time Out
Top CriticCoppola's recent viewing seems to have been German silent films of the '20s, so he has decided to coat the whole enterprise in a startling Expressionist style, which is very arresting but hardly appropriate to the matter in hand.
Film Journal International
Visually stunning but dramatically inert coming-of-age tale
| Original Score: 2/5
