Streets of Fire looks like a music video, moves like a cartoon, and thinks like a bar fight. Great songs, killer vibes—and a macho fantasy so outdated it punches itself in the face.
Full review: A rock-and-roll fairy tale that can't decide if it's sincere, ironic, or just plain dumb.
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Streets of Fire: A Music Video Fantasy Undermined by Macho Tropes

Streets of Fire (1984) plays like a feature-length music video for a song by Jim Steinman—whose compositions, as anyone familiar with Meat Loaf’s videography can attest, lend themselves unusually w…

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