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Metascore
8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineDeliriously expressionistic visually and aurally.
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertI thought Rumble Fish was offbeat, daring, and utterly original.
- 88The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe 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]
- 75Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrA triumph of romantic impulse over stylistic indulgence. [21 Oct 1983]
- 60The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinThe 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.
- 60TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissRumble Fish is the messiest, most provocative inkblot of the year.
- 60VarietyVarietyRumble 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.
- 30Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrThe 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.