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“where the hero is on top at the beginning and then gradually goes down”
MrPajamas · Metacritic ↗
Read 28 Aug 2026 · confidence 0% · too thin for a score · how this works
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“The tale related here isn't all that original, but the honest presentation lends impact to a wrenching scenario.”
James Berardinelli, ReelViews · 88
“It's a tough, intense, wrenching picture about drugs and growing up and surviving, driven by a fierce, skinless performance by its star, Leonardo DiCaprio.”
Hal Hinson, Washington Post · 80
“[Kalvert] best serves the movie by simply focusing on DiCaprio, who communicates the spirit and blunt truth of the diaries even when the movie keeps trying to soften the blow.”
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone · 75
“Kalvert and Goluboff overcome predictability by developing the film's characters and atmosphere instead. The result is a turbocharged ode to the lithe bodies and swaggering souls of boys who believe they're invincible - a glorious love song of youthful self-destructiveness.”
Matt Zoller Seitz, Dallas Observer · 70
“It's an energetic, watchable mess.”
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly · 67
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“where the hero is on top at the beginning and then gradually goes down”
MrPajamasabout 0–75% inread it ↗
“A so-so adaptation of Jim Carroll's acclaimed memoir, "The Basketball Diaries" finds Leonardo DiCaprio giving it his absolute all in a film that tries to have it both ways, scratching at some of the transgressive and challenging elements of the source material, while also attempting to maintain that pristine veneer of your typical, Hollywood anti-drug PSA. I also, weirdly, found the period elements to be basically nonexistent from this. This whole movie's supposed to take place during the 1960's”
Compi24read it ↗
“I'm not sure why this films is rated as mediocre, it isn't a bad film, it does its job. It shows the sad and depressing effects of drug use and then falling into addiction. It also shows how it's possible for anyone to fall into addiction. Ofourse the young Leonardo Dicaprio is brilliant in this film.”
NedWmetaread it ↗
“Most underrated movie maybe just because people hating on Leo... 9 out of 10 A movie that really shocked me in my teenage years Must see!”
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