Gangs of New York Reviews
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Gangs of New York is something better than perfect: It's thrillingly alive.
Read the full reviewEverything is vast and hugely ambitious in Martin Scorsese's magisterial, scrambled historical epic.
Read the full reviewThis is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology, either liberal or conservative. Gangs of New York is nearly a great movie. I suspect that, over time, it will make up the distance.
Read the full reviewIt's a magnificent achievement—holes, tatters, crudities, screw-ups, and all.
Read the full reviewScorsese creates a film so resonant that it is both a work of great art and an anthropological document.
Read the full reviewA grand achievement in history and anthropology, supporting its ambition and scope with a sumptuous re-creation of the period and an immediacy that allows a forgotten past to barrel into the present.
Read the full reviewBears all the earmarks of a magnum opus for Martin Scorsese: Fascinating and fresh material about his beloved New York City, an epic reach, an equally epic gestation period, a dynamic criminal element, combustible socio-political-religious elements, outstanding actors and sophisticated allusions to cinema history that inform and enrich the experience.
Read the full reviewRips up the postcards of American history and reassembles them into a violent, blood-soaked story of our bare-knuckled past.
Read the full reviewIf Martin Scorsese's staggeringly ambitious one-of-a-kind finally has too many flaws to be great, it has as much greatness in it as any movie this year.
Read the full reviewScorsese and his team of Grade A talents are working on an operatic scale here, and like many operas, this is long, overwrought, sprawling, and more than frequently brilliant. It also hits just enough discordant notes to keep it from greatness.
Read the full reviewDoesn't come close to masterpiece status. There are some great individual scenes and a tremendous performance by Daniel Day-Lewis, but the connecting material is mediocre, leading to the occasional twinge of dissatisfaction.
Read the full reviewUnder its scope and reach and passion, Gangs of New York is pretty ordinary stuff.
Read the full reviewScorsese and his team have created a heavy-footed golem of a motion picture, hard to ignore as it throws its weight around but fatally lacking in anything resembling soul.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 72
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Molly's perspective
"As an Irish American I enjoyed Gangs of Newyork. I also got a kick out of my mother's love for the butcher. He was her favorite charachter. When asked if the movie was violent my mother said, "No not violent at all." There should be a Gangs of New York II. Thanks for bringing enjoyment to my Ma."
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