New York, New York (1977)
60 %
Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 12 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 5.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 50 mins
Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's NEW YORK, NEW YORK is a sparkling, nostalgic look at the big-band era of the 1940s, as well as the MGM musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. The story concerns Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro), an aspiring saxophonist who meets and is at first rejected by singer Francine Evans (Liza... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Liza Minnelli, Robert DeNiro, Lionel Stander, Georgie Auld, Mary Kay Place
Buy It On DVD
Reviews
It's the exact kind of craziness that could only have been made in the waning days of the 1970s.
Comment
04/13/08
There are some things about it that rub me the right way: it has style, fire in its belly, great visuals and was ahead of its time.
07/25/07
New York, New York never fully comes together as a cohesive picture. Rather, it's a film with many parts that don't gel, much like its fabricated lead characters.
10/08/06
Click to read the article
01/26/06
From a story perspective, nothing happens in the film's 'last act,' but from an emotional perspective, everything happens. Minnelli's performance leaves its peak and soars.
06/10/05
Why should a man of Mr. Scorsese's talent be giving us what amounts to no more than a film buff's essay on a pop-film form that was never, at any point in film history, of the first freshness?
05/09/05
Top Critic
Martin Scorsese attempts to pay tribute to his musical forefathers, specifically Vincente Minnelli, with this colorful, misguided epic.
05/02/05
Martin Scorsese's New York, New York never pulls itself together into a coherent whole, but if we forgive the movie its confusions we're left with a good time.
10/23/04
Top Critic
One of the best of all movie musicals, and one of the best of all Scorsese. Extraordinary.
08/16/03
Click to read the article
05/24/03
Scorsese's uneven mix of drama and music seems a bit self-indulgent. De Niro's character is totally unsympathetic.
01/08/03
IGN RSS Feeds