[A] flawed masterpiece.
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02/03/10
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Gangs of New York (2002)
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Reviews Counted:199
Fresh:148
Rotten:51
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Though flawed, the sprawling, messy Gangs of New York is redeemed by impressive production design and Day-Lewis's electrifying performance.
Theatrical Release:Dec 20, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $77,605,296
Synopsis: Director Martin Scorsese revisits New York City's notorious past with this dazzling historical drama. A throwback to the epics of yesteryear, GANGS OF NEW YORK is set in the mid-1800s, when the... [More]
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Reviews for Gangs of New York
The whole may not add up to the sum of its parts, but it's difficult to dismiss the brilliance of those parts.
02/18/09
It’s a story of such relevance to New York, to America and even to the rest of the world, that just had to be told on film with as much impact as a filmmaker can muster. And Martin Scorsese musters much.
10/18/08
The impact is all in the broad strokes of Scorsese's design: the corresponding coming-of-age stories of three confused and violent adolescents: Amsterdam Vallon, New York City, and America. [Blu-Ray]
06/30/08
Why did Scorsese spend three decades thirsting to make this movie? It's nowhere clear on the screen.
02/13/08
Gangs becomes a standard revenge opus. And a long one at that.
07/14/07
Martin Scorsese¹s dream project finally explodes on the screen after years of planning and another year of delays.
05/26/06
It's never less than compelling, driven by an overwhelming, larger than life performance from Day-Lewis and by Scorsese's grandiose historical imagination.
02/09/06
Day-Lewis's sneering, roaring, monstrous performance as the Butcher will remind you of the seemingly superhuman work Robert DeNiro performed in his prime.
12/06/04
It is unrelentingly gritty and tense.
10/14/04
Daniel Day-Lewis' magnetic portrayal of a 19th-century ganglord who butchered his enemies as readily as he carved up a freshly killed hog.
06/23/04
Gangs is Scorsese's impassioned, elegiac portrait of a time when blows were delivered with fists, bats, and blades rather than airplanes, anthrax, or keyboard strokes; it's his look back at a lost world, his urban western.
05/19/04
It will be a film that, in decades hence, will only grow in stature and importance.
03/16/04
Gangs of New York is a very good film striving desperately to be great.
01/06/04
Martin Scorsese has landed back onto UK cinema screens with a resoundingly hollow thump.
11/06/03
Martin Scorcese delivers an enormous blowout of a film, a biopic of New York in the 1800s... but it’s too much bombast and far too loose.
10/07/03
Gangs’ editing, suspense, and overall visual style all are evocative of classic Scorsese greats, but rarely has the filmmaker’s thematic eye been so carefully trained.
06/26/03
...beautifully photographed, vividly presented, brutally engaging.
06/20/03
Gangs Of New York is a magnificent film, and is challengingly about more than the sum of its’ parts.
06/11/03
A disappointing entry in the Scorsese canon.
06/08/03
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