Taxi Driver Reviews
Top CriticIt's a powerful film and a terrific showcase for the versatility of star Robert De Niro.
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.
You may want to argue with Taxi Driver at the end, and with good reason, but it won't be a waste of time.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Since the mid-1970s, the movie has become presciently emblematic of our emotionally diseased, violence-prone culture.
The heart and soul of Taxi Driver are twisted in a way that can't be faked or copied.
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| Original Score: 4/4
A masterful psychological study, the depth of which can only fully be appreciated on repeat viewings.
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| Original Score: 4/4
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
