Rumble Fish 1983

Janet Maslin, New York Times: A number of the images in Rumble Fish are more memorable than the film is as a whole, sometimes for the wrong reasons. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is a movie you are likely to hate, unless you can love it for its crazy, feverish charm. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: If Rumble Fish fails as a traditional movie about real people, it is beguiling as an exercise in hallucinatory style. Read more

Time Out: Coppola's recent viewing seems to have been German silent films of the '20s, so he has decided to coat the whole enterprise in a startling Expressionist style, which is very arresting but hardly appropriate to the matter in hand. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Overwrought and overthought. Read more