The Basketball Diaries

  • 15 (NORWAY)
  • 1995


MOVIE IS uncomfortable intelligent worthwhile inevitable fragile
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61 %
45 % Rotten
$ 0 Million
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Positive Reviews 10
Negative reviews 8
Average Rating 2.7/5
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3.2
For those few soul freezing moments, you get a glimpse of the great actor Leonardo DiCaprio is going to be. EW
2.5
Will there ever be a market for a movie about a character who hurries past his drug phase because he cant wait to tell you what he did after he pulled .. Rogerebert
1.5
The angel faced DiCaprio is a gifted actor, but he lacks the authority and physical presence to keep us with him. Time Out
4.5
Still, though his body appears too fragile to withstand the descent, this amazingly uninhibited actor doesnt back off an inch.
0.5
But theres little momentum, no real story line, just Carrolls tediously inevitable descent from low to lowest.
2.5
Amazingly, though, even with Kalverts lack of style and vision, the greatness of DiCaprios performance is undiminished. San Francisco Chronicle
1.3
It doesnt really have a story, but thats no problem they just make one up. San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
Not exactly upbeat watching but the charm of an early DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg makes this worthwhile viewing.
2.8
What almost saves the muddled pic from fouling out is the raw dynamic performance by Leonardo DiCaprio... . Sover
4.4
Facile escapes are rejected, and the resolution is acceptable because we can believe it. In fact, thats the reason this film works as well as it does: .. ReelViews
3.1
If the idea of watching Leonardo DiCaprio pout for 90 minutes gives you sweaty palms, by all means go. Tv Guide
2.5
Instead of trying to deal with this subject in some insightful way, the movie settles for exploiting and wallowing in the degradation of the central c .. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
2.0
It looks like Kalvert is trying to imagine what a long form Velvet Underground video might have looked like. Internet Reviews
2.0
You never understand what really motivated this intelligent adolescent, a gifted basketball player and sensitive writer, to descend into the hellish l .. Emanuellevy
1.5
Although it masquerades as a cautionary tale about the horrors of heroin, this epic of teen age angst is more accurately seen as a reverential wallow .. Calendar Live
3.8
Given the Roman Catholic prep school setting and the retro fashions (including Chuck Taylors all around), its pretty much only the modern cars that su .. Groucho Reviews
3.0
Bleak, depressing independent film making with an incredible performance by Leonardo Di Caprio, The Basketball Diaries shows that, if anything, it is .. Matts Movie Reviews
1.5
Significantly, the movie keeps the heros reformation offscreen as well as unexplained; its more interested in shock effects than in candor or elucidat .. Chicago Reader
4.5
Although the film, like most films that deal with drug issues, has a preachy sincerity and a focus on the woes of drug use it makes for effective, com .. Film4
4.0
An uncomfortable experience, to say the least. But also quite rewarding. Blu Ray Ign
1.5
For as much as The Basketball Diaries wants to claim that its a realistic portrayal of addiction, it might have done better to root it in its honest t .. Vanyaland



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