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Variety
Extraordinary real-life snapshot of hip, arty, clubland Manhattan in the post-punk era. Full Review
Brendan Kelly
Variety
Extraordinary real-life snapshot of hip, arty, clubland Manhattan in the post-punk era. Full Review
Dave Kehr
The New York Times
It's as a documentary that Downtown 81 is most successful, particularly at those moments when the somewhat unfocused filmmaking allows us to look past the foreground characters and catch glimpses of a vanished cityscape. Full Review
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
Its main value is the prolonged look it gives of the late artist Basquiat. Full Review
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
Alternates between being amusingly pretentious and studiously dull. Full Review
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