Taxi Driver Reviews
Time Out Chicago
What strikes you aren't just the iconic moments, but the little ones.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Top CriticIt's a powerful film and a terrific showcase for the versatility of star Robert De Niro.
Cinema Autopsy
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.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Total Film
Scorsese's masterpiece of urban alienation...
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| Original Score: 5/5
IGN DVD
A haunting, visceral trip through the mind of a man on the edge of his own sanity.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Eye for Film
This is an extraordinary film. De Niro in the central role delivers one of those powerhouse performances that simply blows the audience away.
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| Original Score: 5/5
This is London
Melodramatic as it often is, the film is a riveting watch and De Niro provides a character study it is impossible to forget.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Radio Times
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.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Slant Magazine
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.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Like Werner Herzog's Aguirre or Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver is auteurist psychodrama.
Common Sense Media
Portrait of a very disturbed man; NOT for kids.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Turner Classic Movies Online
... 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.
AskMen.com
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
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| Original Score: 96/100
Observer [UK]
Martin Scorsese's masterly Taxi Driver both encapsulates and transcends its times.
Film4
If you haven't seen Taxi Driver, your education in film hasn't even begun.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Boulder Weekly
Get in and take a nightmare ride on perhaps Scorsese's best picture, the story of Vietnam vet Travis Bickle's fight to win the woman of his dreams in the seedy Big Apple.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Combustible Celluloid
Acclaimed for its gritty realism, but it has an equal amount of cinematic reverie.
Empire Magazine
The blend of Schrader's script, Scorsese's direction and De Niro's performance is both riveting and unnerving. A film that will stay with you forever.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Movie Views
A grimy film that perfectly reflects its grimy subject matter. Travis Bickle [is] one of film's most complex characters. When you talk about super heroes, he truly is one minus the tights and powers.
