A myth-infused coming-of-age story that's directed with a grandly imaginative visual repertoire to match.

| Jan 4, 2021

If Rumble Fish fails as a traditional movie about real people, it is beguiling as an exercise in hallucinatory style.

| Dec 11, 2007

Overwrought and overthought.

| Dec 11, 2007

A bit too over-stylized to allow for any great involvement, the most interesting part of this is spotting the young actors before they became stars -- most notably nephew-of-the-director Nicolas Cage.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2007

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.

| Feb 9, 2006

This is a movie you are likely to hate, unless you can love it for its crazy, feverish charm.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 1, 2005

A number of the images in Rumble Fish are more memorable than the film is as a whole, sometimes for the wrong reasons.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2003

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.

| Jan 1, 2000