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4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Time OutEric HynesTime OutEric HynesThere's influential, and then there's this 1953 microbudgeted beauty, one that's made its way into the DNA of everything from cinema vérité to the French New Wave.
- 100Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonThe film's genius is how completely it tunes in to his 
experience, delicately outlining Joey's private moments of shame, elation, despondency, and pride.
- 88Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierSlant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierThe film's beguiling visual poetry and smatterings of sociological subtext function less than coherently as transitional markers between cinematic epochs, or even as the nascent burblings of any imminent DIY revolution; instead, they're redolent of a modernist apotheosis.
- 75Boston GlobeMark FeeneyBoston GlobeMark FeeneyThis is a world where people still put out wash to dry on fire escapes, watermelon has seeds, amusement park rides cost 9 cents. Joey is the little fugitive of the title, of course, but at the heart of the movie, as its makers could never have imagined 60 years ago, is a much bigger fugitive: time itself.