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New York, New York (1977)

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 30
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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 5
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Martin Scorsese combined the splashy atmosphere of the old studio musical with an unromanticized marriage story in his valentine to Hollywood and the Big Band era. On V-J Day 1945, newly minted civilian saxophonist Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro) meets USO singer Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli) at a dance, but she rebuffs every advance that he makes. A day and a hotel lobby meeting later, Jimmy finally wins Francine over after she uses her pop instincts to save his too-jazzy audition at a nightclub.

Feb 8, 2005

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All Critics (30) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (10) | DVD (13)

If this movie were a big-band arrangement, it would be a duet for a sax man and a girl singer, but with the soloists in a different key from the band.

January 26, 2010 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
TIME Magazine
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In a final burst from Old Hollywood, Minnelli tears into the title song and it's a wowser.

March 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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Why should a man of Mr. Scorsese's talent be giving us what amounts to no more than a film buff's essay on a pop-film form that was never, at any point in film history, of the first freshness?

May 9, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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Martin Scorsese's New York, New York never pulls itself together into a coherent whole, but if we forgive the movie its confusions we're left with a good time.

October 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
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Martin Scorsese created a very handsome and dynamic film, but the spectacular set pieces don't add up to much.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Ultimately a very personal film about how Scorsese views a genre of film and, as such, has a much more coherent vision than its reputation would suggest. [Blu-ray]

June 24, 2011 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comment

A stagebound valentine, but one vigorously constructed down to the last detail, with Scorsese reveling in the costumes and music. It's an itch that spreads into a full-body rash in the final act.

June 24, 2011 Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | Comment
BrianOrndorf.com

A downbeat homage to bright-lights showbiz dramas, an epic orchestration that indulges in stubbornly obsessive riffs, Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (1977) seems to value awkwardness and indecision above all else.

June 16, 2011 Full Review Source: House Next Door | Comment
House Next Door

Embora interessante, a direção de arte acaba se tornando uma distração e os números musicais são, em sua maioria, frouxos. Por outro lado, De Niro e Minnelli criam personagens complexos que despertam a curiosidade do espectador. Um Scorsese menor.

January 27, 2010 Comment
Cinema em Cena

A visually fascinating rumination on the genre.

January 26, 2010 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

It's the exact kind of craziness that could only have been made in the waning days of the 1970s.

April 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

(Martin) Scorsese's love of the classic musicals and the studio style is all over the film, while his own instincts for improvisation and dramatic collision plays counterpoint to the gloss.

December 20, 2007 Full Review Source: MSN.com | Comment
MSN.com

There are some things about it that rub me the right way: it has style, fire in its belly, great visuals and was ahead of its time.

July 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

New York, New York never fully comes together as a cohesive picture. Rather, it's a film with many parts that don't gel, much like its fabricated lead characters.

October 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Movie Views | Comment

Scorsese's tribute/parody/critique of the MGM musical is a razor-sharp dissection of the conventions of both meeting-cute romances and rags-to-riches biopics.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

New York, New York often looks uneven and incoherent

July 24, 2005 Full Review Source: Draxblog Movie Reviews | Comment

Martin Scorsese's criminally neglected tribute to the heyday of the MGM musical has aged astonishingly well.

June 22, 2005 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

From a story perspective, nothing happens in the film's 'last act,' but from an emotional perspective, everything happens. Minnelli's performance leaves its peak and soars.

June 10, 2005 Full Review Source: DVDLaser | Comment
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Audience Reviews for New York, New York

This is a Scorsese film that typically gets overlooked, and, while I can see why (to a degree), I think it's actually pretty good, and probably one of his most underrated- and that last little bit is something that needs to change. The film was a departure and an experiment for Marty. It was his follow-up to Taxi

November 29, 2011
cosmo313
Chris Weber

Super Reviewer

A Scorsese masterpiece that happens to be forgotten, unfortunately. If this film had been released in the '50s and hadn't that usual Scorsese brutality to it, it would have been considered among the greatest classics. But then again, I loved the gritty yet beautiful touch from master Martin Scorsese he brought to this

January 18, 2010
emilebond007

Super Reviewer

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