The Funeral Reviews
Combustible Celluloid
The Funeral is yet another fresh take on the gangster flick.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
eFilmCritic.com
Anticlimactic and unconvincing.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Though directed in different style, thematically, this period movie is a companion piece to King of New York and The Bad Lieutenant, forming an urban crime trilogy and representing Ferrara's best work.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Lessons of Darkness
A psychologically strung-out tale stuffed full of ideas and inspired moments.
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| Original Score: B
Time Out
Top CriticA brilliant, very visceral piece of film-making with an infectious strain of morbid humour.
ColeSmithey.com
The corpse, the corpse, the corpse!
| Original Score: 4/5
PopcornQ
One of Ferrara's more bearable fims. Solid performances.
| Original Score: 4/5
[Ferrara] still finds sharp new ways to explore the nuances of a trite-sounding story.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Reel Film Reviews
With a cast like that, one would expect fireworks on the screen. Unfortunately, this never happens.
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| Original Score: 2/4
KFOR Channel 4 News
A strong portrait of gangsters from Abel Ferrara, one of cinemas best provocateurs.
| Original Score: 3/5
Boxoffice Magazine
Some viewers may enjoy watching the lifestyles of the grim and depraved; others will find that sitting through "The Funeral" is like going to celluloid hell.
You're engaged on a moral level rarely found in movies about violence.
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
We have seen Martin Scorsese's gangster films, and Abel Ferrara, you are no Martin Scorsese.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The picture works despite the bizarre ending.
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| Original Score: B+
Austin Chronicle
Nobody spins a good morality yarn like Abel Ferrara.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film after film, Ferrara and St. John are finding new ways to scream.
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| Original Score: 3/4
San Francisco Examiner
Ferrara's eerie version of crime-wracked New York City of the 1930s.
Now here is a gangster movie that does not want setups or payoffs like traditional gangster movies.
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| Original Score: 3/4
