Wild Style

Wild Style is an unbelievable treat for fans of hip hop and hip hop culture, featuring Fab Five Freddy (actually a pretty good actor), Lee Quinones (not a good actor), Rock Steady, Cold Crush, Double Trouble, Grandmaster Flash… etc. etc. It’s also fun to listen out for all…

joemarsh

A true hangout movie because it's so unconcerned with dramatic incident but instead in capturing a time and place, made even more vital because of the wide reaching cultural impact that time and place would go on to have. Also, all-time great title sequence.

Joe

Sometimes you need a plot, and sometimes you need good actors, but sometimes you just need energy, that good energy. Pretty remarkable time capsule.

Jay D 's Watching

Hip-Hop veteran Wild Style! immerses into his world of subculture of the New York of the early 1980s with a truly wonderful sense of wonder. He repeatedly lingers in his settings and lets the individual disciplines of the culture speak for themselves. This comes across as…

shookone

Rough, raw, sometimes amateurish, but never anything but earnest. Belongs on a list of great American independent movies like Linklater's SLACKER, Burnett's KILLER OF SHEEP and Spheeris' SUBURBIA, that perfectly capture a specific time and culture.

Kevin Clarke

While Beat Street injects a lot of real scene elements into its more traditional ensemble narrative, Wild Style feels even more authentic. Charlie Ahearn's semi-doc choices are exquisite and cannily off-hand. What he really gives you is process; where these arts come from,…

Jack Often

Your favorite rapper's favorite rapper's favorite movie.

AYCH

a hangout movie in the truest sense — any narrative sensibilities quickly fall away in favor of extended music sequences and a deep affection for the city itself, feeling more like a bonafide documentary than many films of that genre to be shot in NY in that era, arguably…

Justin LaLiberty

There should’ve been more no wave hip-hop movies!

Liz