<Li> "You're the Best" (Joe Esposito) </Li> <P> The Karate Kid ranked #40 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies . </P> <P> The film received an approval rating of 88% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 43 reviews, its consensus reads: "Utterly predictable and wholly of its time, but warm, sincere, and difficult to resist, due in large part to Pat Morita and Ralph Macchio's relaxed chemistry ." </P> <P> On its release, Roger Ebert called the film one of the year's best, gave it four stars out of four, and described it as an "exciting, sweet - tempered, heart - warming story with one of the most interesting friendships in a long time ." Janet Maslin of The New York Times also gave a positive review . </P>

80 s martial arts film about a high school boy