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63 out of 100

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  • Starring: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke
  • Summary: Rusty James (Dillon) has been failing in his attempts to to live up to his older brother - The Motorcycle Boy's (Rourke) reputation. He returns from California to try to pass some his knowledge of life to his little brother.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    100
    Deliriously expressionistic visually and aurally.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Janet Maslin
    60
    The stunning black-and-white cinematography in Francis Coppola's Rumble Fish functions rather like a cold compress, subduing a film that is otherwise all feverish extremes.
  3. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    30
    The action is clotted and murky, and Coppola obviously hasn't bothered to clarify it for the members of his cast, who wander through the film with expressions of winsome, honest befuddlement.

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