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Rumble Fish
Metascore
63 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    100
    Deliriously expressionistic visually and aurally.
  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    I thought Rumble Fish was offbeat, daring, and utterly original.
  3. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Jay Scott
    88
    The most amazing thing about this amazing movie may be that in the end it communicates the large uncertainties and small hopes of a twisted, inarticulate adolescent boy perfectly, and wordlessly. [14 Oct 1983]
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  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    75
    A triumph of romantic impulse over stylistic indulgence. [21 Oct 1983]
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  5. 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.
  6. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    60
    Rumble Fish is the messiest, most provocative inkblot of the year.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    60
    Rumble Fish is another Francis Coppola picture that's overwrought and overthought with camera and characters that never quite come together in anything beyond consistently interesting.
  8. 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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