Bringing Out the Dead Reviews
Film4
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.
Top CriticIts 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.
Big Picture Big Sound
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Empire Magazine
An exciting, invigorating return to old preoccupations. Welcome home, Marty.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
However muddled the story gets, Scorsese guarantees Bringing Out the Dead remains a pulsating trip.
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Reeling Reviews
It's assuredly the work of a master filmmaker.
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| Original Score: B+
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
Everyone looks dead and they speak as if they live in a nightmarish dreamworld. Well, they do.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Sight and Sound
A very different and, in many respects, very impressive film.
Netflix
Overlooked Martin Scorsese movie has grim humor, grit and grace.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Montreal Film Journal
Give it to Martin Scorsese to keep coming back and hitting one out of the park.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Cinema em Cena
Um filme sobre solidão, medo e angústia que jamais fornece respostas fáceis para os dolorosos dilemas de seus personagens.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Spirituality and Practice
A riveting drama about a New York City paramedic who is experiencing a harrowing spiritual emergency.
Combustible Celluloid
Martin Scorsese's new movie is both amazing and darkly hilarious.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Film Written Magazine
A powerful, emotionally-draining slice-of-life.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Austin Chronicle
It's still a marginal cut below his greatest triumphs. But not by too much, I think.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Moviola
Vidas al Límite es más que nada un buen ejercicio para Scorsese, ya que si bien no es de su mejores cintas, sí contiene varias secuencias que son dignas de llamar la atención
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| Original Score: 3/4
Q Network Film Desk
A harrowing, darkly comic tale.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Laramie Movie Scope
The creative energy contrasts with the destructiveness of life. These are the things Scorsese sees when he closes his eyes, and he has the craft to pull you into that world of his.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Blunt Review
This is the real poop behind the medical emergency scenes. Scorsese and team don't hold back.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies
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| Original Score: 3/4
Irish Times
