The result reverberates on the screen with a deadly force and fury more intense than anything Mr. Scorsese has yet achieved on the meanest and most beloved streets he could imagine or recall.
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Gangs of New York (2002)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:27
Rotten:12
Average Rating:6.7/10
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
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01/16/03
Top CriticYou have to honor its mad ambition. But sadly, it feels like a dream too long deferred.
01/14/03
Top CriticScorsese's congested, conflicted, entrancing achievement.
01/13/03
Top CriticA triumph of pure craft and passionate heart.
01/09/03
Top CriticDespite some reservations, however, the movie never lost my interest, and I consider it to be worth a trip to a theater to see.
12/24/02
Top CriticGangs can be riveting, but for all its violence, it fails to land a knockout blow.
12/23/02
Top CriticFor almost the first two-thirds of Martin Scorsese's 168-minute Gangs of New York, I was entranced.
12/23/02
Top CriticDarkly operatic and brilliantly realized.
12/20/02
Top CriticIt's as if [Scorsese] preferred to concentrate on the production ... rather than on the dramatic issues and, oh yeah, taking up the rear, the human beings who live them.
12/20/02
Top CriticFor all its lack of breathing room ... it realistically puts you into the Civil War North as much as Gone With the Wind does with the romantically idealized South.
12/20/02
Top CriticA work of battered brilliance.
12/20/02
Top CriticI doubt I'll ever be able to look at a smirking fellow in old daguerreotype, with rolled-up sleeves and a mustache, and not think of Daniel Day-Lewis and all that vitality lost to time.
12/20/02
Top CriticThe world needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like Martin Scorsese. But it doesn't need Gangs of New York.
12/20/02
Top CriticGangs, for all its bloodletting, is the aberrant case of a movie that needed more violence to make its moral point.
12/20/02
Top CriticIt vividly and energetically evokes a fascinating time and place that has never before been the subject of film, and presents a powerful if imperfectly coherent vision of urban politics at their most primal.
12/20/02
Top CriticAs it is, the film is always watchable, occasionally riveting, but ultimately a disappointment.
12/20/02
Top CriticThe spasmodic spectacle fails to develop any narrative or visceral momentum -- it has no cumulative effect.
12/20/02
Top CriticA muddle splashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any Scorsese has ever given us.
12/20/02
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October 23, 2007:
Scorsese, DiCaprio Reuniting for Shutter Island
Their first three collaborations netted copious amounts of Oscar love and box-office receipts, so it isn't surprising that Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are in no hurry... More...
June 21, 2007:
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March 26, 2007:
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February 26, 2007:
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