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out of 100
Metascore®Mixed or average reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
A minor movie, modestly made, that develops to a counterculture beat but ends with a status quo conundrum: Is selling out the new keeping it real?
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Establishes a strong sense of milieu in these street scenes, and while the movie's not without its flaws--much of the dialogue is colorless and Lisa seems a bit too together to be hanging out with Curtis--it's never less than credible.
The ending, which unnecessarily veers toward lumpy, overwrought melodrama, undoes the scrappy elegance the film previously displays in fits and starts.
Picture's cliched underlying story of restless youth plays as too naive for an older audience and too provocative for teens.
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