Bringing Out the Dead Reviews

I congratulate Martin Scorsese on this miraculous triumph over his personal demons, and pray for the swift recovery of his art.

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A frankly disturbing experience since Cage is at his most manic, the images are brutal, the documentary-style background intense and the (inevitable) theme of redemption a long time emerging.

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Its hard-to-pin-down tone is frighteningly original -- simultaneously world-weary and adolescent with an aura of perpetual anxiety, as if the characters and filmmakers were in pursuit of a catharsis everyone knows will never come.

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Scorsese is married to a script that drags him down, keeps him from taking wing as a pure artist.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Martin Scorsese is a wonderful filmmaker. And he loves New York. He is at his best, though, when he has an interesting story to tell.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

An exciting, invigorating return to old preoccupations. Welcome home, Marty.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Of course, it's immaculately crafted and exhilaratingly paced, but in the end it's never as emotionally involving as it could and should be.

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However muddled the story gets, Scorsese guarantees Bringing Out the Dead remains a pulsating trip.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It's assuredly the work of a master filmmaker.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

It's another burnout role for Nicolas Cage, to which he brings his vast repertoire of grimaces and shuffles, as if he were variously impersonating a gargoyle on amphetamines and late Elvis on downers.

I don't recommend it, unless you care to see the best Nicolas Cage performance in several years, or some more of Scorcese's brilliant camera work.

| Original Score: B-

Scorsese doesn't trust the power of simplicity to rock us.

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Everyone looks dead and they speak as if they live in a nightmarish dreamworld. Well, they do.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A very different and, in many respects, very impressive film.

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Overlooked Martin Scorsese movie has grim humor, grit and grace.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Give it to Martin Scorsese to keep coming back and hitting one out of the park.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Bringing Out the Dead fails on almost every level at which Taxi Driver succeeded.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Um filme sobre solidão, medo e angústia que jamais fornece respostas fáceis para os dolorosos dilemas de seus personagens.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The auteur has definitely left his distinctive mark, but too seldom and too narrowly.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

A riveting drama about a New York City paramedic who is experiencing a harrowing spiritual emergency.

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