It's one of those films you forget a week after you've seen it.

| Mar 29, 2022

The biggest problem with "Rooftops" is that it can't decide whether to be a light dance fantasy or a heavy-handed thriller.

| Jun 18, 2021

It's cliche-ridden, poorly acted and, worst of all, indifferently danced.

| Jun 18, 2021

The biggest letdown is the paucity of dance sequences that could have vaulted Rooftops into memorability.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Jun 18, 2021

Wise's youthful, great-looking cast exudes talent and energy.

| Jun 18, 2021

Wise ought to be ashamed. But chances are that if he were capable of directing the vulgar and badly made "Rooftops," shame is beyond him by now.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 18, 2021

"Rooftops" is a film you think you know soon after it begins, and you're right.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2021

It's never possible to enjoy any part of "Rooftops"...

| Jun 18, 2021

It's B-grade teen saga stuff, but in the hands of an old pro like Wise, Rooftops is fairly watchable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2021

It's tempting to write that Gedrick is no Richard Beymer, but strictly speaking, that's not true -- Gedrick has about as much charisma as Beymer, which is no charisma at all.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2021

The thing is, none of this is very interesting or exciting. The music is the sort of annoying, undistinguished, monotonous drumbeat you can hear out of any passing boombox. The dance sequences are perfunctorily shot.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 18, 2021

This romantic musical drama about homeless Manhattan teens living on rooftops doesn't reach any heights.

| Original Score: C+ | May 3, 2007

Wise's return to the 'street-sussed musical' is painfully disappointing: a parade of frantic, vacuous gestures which, like combat dancing itself, simply never delivers the punch...

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 11, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Jun 19, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 13, 2004

There ought to be a message deeper than the one contained here, which is that the good kids in the ghetto would find happiness and fulfillment jiving to the beat if only the crack dealers would leave them in peace.

| May 21, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 13, 2003

The main question that pops up here is what Robert Wise thought he might bring to this hip-hop update of his earlier film.

| Jan 1, 2000

If the movie had gone ahead and declared itself as a musical fantasy, that would have taken the curse off the cliches. But it hedges its bets; it pretends to be a straight narrative, and then hopes to sneak in the dance stuff.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000