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Critics Consensus: Given the movie's premise, one would assume it's gritty and street-smart, but in reality it's a slave to stale cliches and formula.
Critic Consensus: Given the movie's premise, one would assume it's gritty and street-smart, but in reality it's a slave to stale cliches and formula.
All Critics (22) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (15) | DVD (4)
Visually dazzling and dramatically trite -- it's virtuoso piffle.
Thoroughly fails to convince that its handful of New York characters known as 'bombers,' graffiti mongers futilely yearning for immortality via nightly despoiling of public and private property, is of any tragic interest.
Notable mainly for its hallucinatory, tripped visuals, which go a long way toward compensating for a less-than-riveting narrative.
A richly textured drama with an angry poetic edge that gets inside the obsessive subculture of New York graffiti artists.
Preachy and single-minded, populated by a world of sympathetic heroes and hissable villains.
A mild, slow-moving drama that belatedly tries to argue that graffiti writers are political artists, not an urban blight.
The story is so loosely developed and devoid of suspense, it barely seems to exist.
I came out of this wishing the paint can crowd would settle for tattoos.
The film half-heartedly paints their actions as rebel-chic heroism even when it has all the integrity of tomcats spraying outside their yards...
A didactic ode to a lifestyle that makes little sense, no matter the darkly romantic rebel-with-a-cause ideas associated with what is essentially an act of vandalism.
In the end it's all seductive surface and no substance, but Lough has a bold eye and a vivid sense of uniquely urban beauty.
A flashy but numbingly hollow compendium of Trainspotting-inspired visual gimmicks, Lough's tale of New York City 'bombers' is formulaic in the extreme.
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