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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Time OutTime OutThe film survives cuts to deliver some great, gross, comic book capers. And rock history gets its most intelligent illustration since Mean Streets.
- 80TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineAll in all a fascinating film with an outstanding musical score consisting of jukebox hits from the period.
- 75San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackSan Francisco ChroniclePeter StackThe Wanderer can turn an anxious tone to creepy and phantasmagoric. Kaufman's brilliant camera work relies on the exaggerated style of comic books, and the visual energy throughout is gritty.
- 75San Francisco ExaminerSan Francisco ExaminerThis is a giddy parody of gang pictures, West Side Story without the music and set in the Bronx of the '60s. The music is solid early '60s rock 'n' roll ( My Boyfriend's Back, The Wanderer ) and the acting is broad and often silly.
- 70The New YorkerMichael SragowThe New YorkerMichael SragowWhat revs up the movie and keeps it humming is the driving energy of early rock, with its innocent/rebellious spirit, and its theme that teens must find their own ways to love and fight.
- 60EmpireWilliam ThomasEmpireWilliam ThomasWorth a look, if only for the surreal groupings of the gangs (The Wongs, the Del Bombers and the Fordham Baldies...that's right, they're bald).
- 50New York Magazine (Vulture)New York Magazine (Vulture)Apart from Wahl, the acting in the Wanderers is either embarrassingly flat or hysterically emotional, and the movie is an exhausting mishmash of styles. [23 July 1979, p.62]
- 50The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinMakes mincemeat of an excellent novel.