Fresh
Wild Style is just as important a New York City musical as On the Town, so vital and exuberant are its scenes of a burgeoning cultural moment.
Melissa Anderson, Time Out New York
Overview
Legendary New York graffiti artist Lee Quinones plays the part of Zoro, the city's hottest and most elusive graffiti writer. The actual story of the movie concerns the tension between Zoro's passion for his art and his personal life, particularly his strained relationship with fellow artist Rose.
Director and cast
- Charlie Ahearn Director
- Grandmaster Flash as Himself
- Lee Quiñones as Raymond 'Zoro'
- Patti Astor as Virginia
- Fab 5 Freddy as Phade
- Lady Pink as Rose 'Lady Bug'
- Busy Bee as Chief Rocker
- Rammellzee as Rapper
- Kara Vallow as Dancer (uncredited)
- William Rice as Art Gallery Party Guest (uncredited)
- Lamar Hill Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Charlie Ahearn's groundbreaking film about hip-hop, graffiti, break dancing, and rap in eighties New York celebrates its 25th anniversary with a new 35-mm. print.
Sara Cardace, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
Mixing early-'80s nostalgia with mild social anthropology, the film successfully crystallises the optimism and vivacity of the early New York hip hop scene and suggests that film and TV portrayals of the Bronx as a savage and inhospitable hellhole were pe
David Jenkins, Time Out
Fresh
Wild Style lacks a lot of the style of the people in it, but it never neutralizes their vitality.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
Hip-hop rolls on tractor treads now, unafraid to colonize those who hesitate, but in 1982 it was small, self-selecting, and as specific to New York as the World Trade Center.
Sasha Frere-Jones, Village Voice
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