Taxi Driver (1976)
Average Rating: 8.9/10
Reviews Counted: 61
Fresh: 60 | Rotten: 1
A must-see film for movie lovers, this Martin Scorsese masterpiece is as hard-hitting as it is compelling, with Robert De Niro at his best.
Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 1
A must-see film for movie lovers, this Martin Scorsese masterpiece is as hard-hitting as it is compelling, with Robert De Niro at his best.
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"All the animals come out at night" -- and one of them is a cabby about to snap. In Martin Scorsese's classic 1970s drama, insomniac ex-Marine Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works the nightshift, driving his cab throughout decaying mid-'70s New York City, wishing for a "real rain" to wash the "scum" off the neon-lit streets. Chronically alone, Travis cannot connect with anyone, not even with such other cabbies as blowhard Wizard (Peter Boyle). He becomes infatuated with vapid blonde presidential
Feb 8, 1976 Wide
Jun 15, 1999
Columbia Pictures
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Cast
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Robert De Niro
Travis Bickle -
Cybill Shepherd
Betsy -
Peter Boyle
Wizard -
Albert Brooks
Tom -
Harvey Keitel
Sport -
Jodie Foster
Iris -
Murray Moston
Iris' Time Keeper -
Richard Higgs
Secret Service Agent -
Leonard Harris
Sen. Palantine -
Steven Prince
Gun Salesman -
Martin Scorsese
Weird Passenger -
Diahnne Abbott
Concession Girl -
Frank Adu
Angry Black Man -
Gino Ardito
Policeman at Rally -
Victor Argo
Melio Delicatessen Owne... -
Bob Maroff
Mafioso -
Norman Matlock
Charlie T -
Bill Minkin
Tom's Assistant -
Harry Northrup
Doughboy -
Robert Shields
Palantine Aide -
Joe Spinell
Personnel Officer -
Vic Magnotta
Secret Service Photogra... -
Brenda Dickson
Soap Opera Woman -
Carey Poe
Campaign Worker -
Peter Savage
The John -
Ralph S. Singleton
TV Interviewer -
Copper Cunningham
Hooker in Cab -
Deborah Morgan
Girl at Columbus Circle -
Harry Cohn
Cabby in Bellmore -
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All Critics (61) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (68) | Rotten (1) | DVD (27)
It's a powerful film and a terrific showcase for the versatility of star Robert De Niro.
Bickle is complex, intriguing and never one-note.
Like Werner Herzog's Aguirre or Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver is auteurist psychodrama.
[Scorsese] seems to need scripts with well-designed humor and performers with the spirit of Ellen Burstyn to compensate for what seems to be a fundamentally depressed view of life and the belief that sobriety is the equivalent of seriousness.
New York may have changed, but Taxi Driver is as powerful and painful as ever.
Martin Scorsese's history-making scald is truly a phenomenon from another day and age. Which is to say, imagine a like-minded film of this decade killing at the box office and getting nommed for Best Picture.
What strikes you aren't just the iconic moments, but the little ones.
Taxi Driver is a brilliant study of alienation, obsession, paranoia and perverse desire. There's an undeniable power and grittiness that very few films have come close to capturing since.
Scorsese's masterpiece of urban alienation...
A haunting, visceral trip through the mind of a man on the edge of his own sanity.
This is an extraordinary film. De Niro in the central role delivers one of those powerhouse performances that simply blows the audience away.
Melodramatic as it often is, the film is a riveting watch and De Niro provides a character study it is impossible to forget.
The bustling helter-skelter of Scorsese's Mean Streets gives way to a measured, chilly calm, and cinematographer Michael Chapman ensures the Big Apple glistens with barely concealed menace.
A high-water mark of American cinema gets its due treatment on this luxurious disc. No respectable collection should go without it.
Hitchcockian unease permeates the film, but so too does a Godardian use of space and a Bressonian focus on obsession heighten the mounting sense of dread.
This DVD Limited Collector Edition of Scorsese's 1976 masterpiece contains many bonus features, such as docu about the making of the film, analysis of themes of alientaion and loneliness, interviews with Scorsese, star De Niro and writer Paul Schrader
Portrait of a very disturbed man; NOT for kids.
... a portrait in psychosis and dislocation with a protagonist whose racism and intolerance becomes his excuse to unleash his anger in a violent spree under the guise of heroism.
Writer Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese made names for themselves with this exquisitely crafted window into the contemporary male psyche. Taxi Driver seems aimless, taking as many u-turns and detours as a cabby does in the night. But it's
Martin Scorsese's masterly Taxi Driver both encapsulates and transcends its times.
If you haven't seen Taxi Driver, your education in film hasn't even begun.
Audience Reviews for Taxi Driver
Super Reviewer
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- Travis Bickle: I don't know. That's about the dumbest thing I ever heard.
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- Travis Bickle: You talkin' to me?
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- Travis Bickle: You're only as healthy as you feel.
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- Travis Bickle: You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?
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- Travis Bickle: I got some bad ideas in my head.
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- Travis Bickle: I got some bad ideas in my head!
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Top Critic
De Niro's first huge effort. Monumental, really. Assassin or savior? Life works on little twists of fate or circumstance sometimes. De Niro's final journey toward healing is one of the most harrowing sequences in movie history. What an intense acting job. Jodi Foster's great future acting career is assured.