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From the Edge of the City
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47 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    Brutal yet lyrical film.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    If it's not an entirely wholesome portrait of the immigrant experience, it's certainly an entertaining one.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    60
    It captures a gritty urban reality without moralizing or sentimentalizing its hapless young protagonist.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    50
    Underdeveloped and badly diluted by overlong -- and overly stylized -- forays into the drug use, street hustling and cultural alienation that mostly affects the boys' friends.
  5. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    50
    Gratuitous, yes, but Giannaris has the visual finesse to make it work.
  6. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    50
    An impressive work that's ultimately undone by its excessive style.
  7. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    42
    All the jazzy effects and jumpy editing merely move us quicker to an otherwise predetermined tragedy.
  8. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Dennis Lim
    40
    The viewer, though unavoidably alert, is before long too numb to care.
  9. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Hannah Brown
    38
    Feels like a Greek version of "My Own Private Idaho."
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