Raging Bull Reviews
Top CriticMartin Scorsese makes pictures about the kinds of people you wouldn't want to know.
Bullz-Eye.com
For those who think Rocky is the greatest boxing movie ever made: think again.
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| Original Score: 4/5
It's the best film I've seen about the low self-esteem, sexual inadequacy and fear that lead some men to abuse women.
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| Original Score: 4/4
There's no room for romanticism in the ring with inky black blood staining the canvas. During fight sequences, the director also uses a number of point-of-view shots designed to show the world, however briefly, from La Motta's perspective.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Arizona Daily Star
Scorsese and De Niro built up such a rapport that the actor became an extension of the director's vision.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Slant Magazine
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.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Jake's inner struggles dovetail with his performance in the ring, and the film
Heckler Spray
Interesting, rewarding and, at times, surprisingly episodic.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ColeSmithey.com
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.
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| Original Score: A-
Combustible Celluloid
The boxing sequences have little to do with reality, but cinematically they explode.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Flick Filosopher
The true story of championship prizefighter Jake La Motta, this is unmannered, unpretentious filmmaking that tells its story with startling authenticity, but it's a movie that leaves you feeling as beat up as one of La Motta's opponents.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Apollo Guide
Filmed in a gritty, naturalistic style in luminescent black and white, Martin Scorsese's tortuous film is a fascinating exploration of a diseased man's soul.
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| Original Score: 93/100
Spirituality and Practice
Raging Bull is a screen biography of Jake La Motta, a searing look at the sport of boxing and a riveting drama revolving around grand passions.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin turn in a soulful and intelligent screenplay, one that has blood dripping off the pages.
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| Original Score: A
Cinema em Cena
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
