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Wassup Rockers Review

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4.5

Dave White Profile

… artless artfulness … Read full review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    56

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 50

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

    Ultimately more laughable than illuminating, at times approaching a level of camp commensurate with John Waters.

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  • 58

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    The sexy, scruffy, neo-Warriors pageantry of ghetto teen hunger would have been a lot more vital if Clark didn't have such a class-war chip on his shoulder.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

    At a certain point, Wassup Rockers transforms from a relatively naturalistic slice-of-life portrait into a surrealistic funhouse trap.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    However you respond to Wassup Rockers, it is completely alive, unlike any number of teenage Hollywood movies with their stale formulas and second-hand puerility. And that's mostly to the good.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety Robert Koehler

    A thoroughly winning and unexpectedly observant lark about the antics of seven Latino skateboarding pals in South-Central Los Angeles.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    You could think of Larry Clark's Wassup Rockers as "Ferris Velasquez's Day Off."

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