Wild Style
First Run Features | Release Date: March 18, 1983 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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60
BBCDavid Mattin
It's a bona-fide piece of cultural history. If you love hip hop, this is unmissable. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderTed Shen
Quinones is ill at ease doing the romantic scenes and reading the hokey dialogue, but the street kids around him play themselves naturally. The pacing is slow—inexcusable in a film about music—except when hip-hop takes over, and Ahearn wisely gives plenty of screen time to the likes of Busy Bee, Rock Steady Crew, and Fab Five Freddy. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Luckily, there's a jagged spontaneity to Wild Style that goes with the scruffy street art and culture that it celebrates. [22 May 1998, p.F17]
60
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
The very loose plot of WILD STYLE serves mainly as an excuse for rap-and-dance numbers and the sight of prominent East Coast graffiti artists playing themselves, sometimes with magnetism and panache (Brathewaite), sometimes without (everybody else). Read full review
50
The New York TimesVincent Canby
Wild Style lacks a lot of the style of the people in it, but it never neutralizes their vitality. Read full review
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