Taxi Driver Reviews
Top Critic[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.
Time Out Chicago
What strikes you aren't just the iconic moments, but the little ones.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Common Sense Media
Portrait of a very disturbed man; NOT for kids.
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| Original Score: 4/5
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
A masterful psychological study, the depth of which can only fully be appreciated on repeat viewings.
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| Original Score: 4/4
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
Arizona Daily Star
An utter masterwork of shifting tones and flowering angst.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Netflix
Director Martin Scorsese's nightmare vision of Manhattan is important, impulsive work.
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| Original Score: 5/5
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
Flipside Movie Emporium
De Niro is brilliant, but the film as a whole is less successful than its formidable reputation suggests
| Original Score: 3/5
Perhaps the most formally ravishing-as well as the most morally and ideologically problematic-film ever directed by Martin Scorsese, the 1976 Taxi Driver remains a disturbing landmark for the kind of voluptuous doublethink it helped ratify.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Combustible Celluloid
Acclaimed for its gritty realism, but it has an equal amount of cinematic reverie.
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
It's a powerful film and a terrific showcase for the versatility of star Robert De Niro.
Filmcritic.com
Probably did for cab drivers what Psycho did for showers.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Total Film
Scorsese's masterpiece of urban alienation...
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| Original Score: 5/5
