Raging Bull Reviews

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...

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

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

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

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.

| Original Score: 5/5

Interesting, rewarding and, at times, surprisingly episodic.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

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

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: A

This is Scorsese and De Niro at their best.

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

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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.

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For those who think Rocky is the greatest boxing movie ever made: think again.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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.

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Scorsese's masterpiece, which should have won the Best Picture Oscar, is a haunting chronicle of Jake La Motta, centering on the fine line between animalistic brutality and human conduct.

Full Review | Original Score: A