Raging Bull (1980)

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When has a performer as fully and uniquely sacrificed himself to the moving-picture cause as De Niro?

November 3, 2010 Full Review

Keith Uhlich

Time Out New York

Top Critic

De Niro is always absorbing and credible, even when his character isn't.

August 4, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Martin Scorsese makes pictures about the kinds of people you wouldn't want to know.

March 14, 2007 Full Review | Comments (129)

Joseph McBride

Variety

Top Critic

I can't pan it, but this 1980 fantasy biography of fighter Jake LaMotta seems unquestionably Martin Scorsese's weakest work, at least to that point in his career.

March 14, 2007 Full Review | Comments (21)

Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

This film does more than make you think about masculinity, it makes you see it -- in a way that's relevant to all men, not just Bronx boxers.

February 9, 2006 Full Review

Jessica Winter

Time Out

Top Critic

The film that many consider the finest of its decade.

March 11, 2005 Full Review

Ty Burr

Boston Globe

Top Critic

Boxing movie masterpiece still brutal, bloody.

July 26, 2011 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Common Sense Media

The other night, my wife and I sat down to watch the new 30th Anniversary Blu-ray edition of Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull. I could scarcely believe it's been three decades since...

April 21, 2011 Full Review

Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin's Picks

Raging Bull's second release on Blu-ray looks to be the essential version of Scorsese's masterwork, second only to the experience of seeing it on the big screen.

January 29, 2011 Full Review

Chris Cabin

Slant Magazine

Raging Bull is a fascinating exploration of the mind of an emotionally disconnected man. It's brutal, crass and impossible to look away -- much like a real boxing match.

January 16, 2011 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

The 30th anniversary Blu-ray edition contains many special featurettes. Scorsese's 1980 film is an American masterpiece than even he doesn't make anymore.

December 30, 2010 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Scorsese might never again find a subject as ideal as Jake LaMotta, the Bronx-based boxer whose public bouts and private demons Raging Bull chronicles with such bruising acuity.

November 2, 2010 Full Review

Matthew Connolly

Slant Magazine

Um estudo psicológico brutal sobre um homem dominado pelo ciúme, a insegurança e a paranóia e que traz, além da direção inspirada e expressiva de Scorsese, três atuações formidáveis por parte de De Niro, Pesci e Moriarty.

January 30, 2010 | Comments (7)

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

Interesting, rewarding and, at times, surprisingly episodic.

January 4, 2010 Full Review

Chris Laverty

Heckler Spray

Robert De Niro's metamorphosis into boxing legend Jake La Motta (AKA the Bronx Bull) is one of the most impressive acting transformations on celluloid.

May 8, 2009 Full Review

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

An essential addition to the libraries of all true cinephiles, the film is a triumph both for De Niro and his director, Martin Scorsese, as this stuffed set ably demonstrates.

March 6, 2009

Todd Gilchrist

H Magazine

A classic that has everything to do with the capacity of even highly successful men to cope with life in general, and women in particular.

August 17, 2007 Full Review

Derek Malcolm

This is London

De Niro and Joe Pesci are impeccable and Cathy Moriarty is iconically sexy.

August 17, 2007 Full Review

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

This savagely authentic film about flawed masculinity is worth seeking out for another viewing if the summer's toothless blockbuster fodder is getting you down.

August 17, 2007 Full Review

Wendy Ide

Times [UK]

Among the greatest films of the 1980s, but not Scorsese's best.

August 17, 2007 Full Review

Richard Luck

Film4

Martin Scorsese's luminous study of a man at war with his own nature remains undimmed after almost 30 years.

August 17, 2007 Full Review

Total Film

Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin turn in a soulful and intelligent screenplay, one that has blood dripping off the pages.

July 9, 2007 Full Review

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

This is Scorsese and De Niro at their best.

March 14, 2007 Full Review

Madeleine Williams

Austin Chronicle

• 1. Jake LaMotta: I bought it for my father. I bought the building.
  2. Vickie LaMotta: Oh, yeah? From fightin'?
  3. Jake LaMotta: Yeah. What else?
  – Submitted by Rolf J (2 months ago)
• 1. Jake LaMotta: I'm the best, I can take it more than anybody.
  – Submitted by Guillermo L (6 months ago)
• 1. Jake LaMotta: I don't go down for nobody.
  – Submitted by Guillermo L (6 months ago)
• 1. Joey LaMotta: What are you trying to prove?
  – Submitted by Alex K (8 months ago)
• 1. Jake LaMotta: Who's an animal? Your mother's an animal, ya son of a bitch.
  – Submitted by Stefan V (8 months ago)
• 1. Jake LaMotta: You punch like you take it up the ass.
  – Submitted by Stefan V (8 months ago)

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