Raging Bull (1980)
98 %
Reviews Counted: 52 Fresh: 51 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 9/10
Consensus:
Arguably Martin Scorsese’s and Robert De Niro’s finest film, Raging Bull is often painful to watch, but it’s a searing, powerful work about an unsympathetic hero.
Runtime: 2 hrs 12 mins
Synopsis: With RAGING BULL, Martin Scorsese's personal approach to filmmaking is taken to a whole new level. Shooting in a crisp black and white, Scorsese tells the story of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, played with incredible intensity by Oscar winner Robert De Niro. As La Motta rises through the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto
Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenwriter: Mardik Martin, Paul Schrader
Story: Jake La Motta, Joseph Carter, Peter Savage
Producer: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
Screenwriter: Mardik Martin, Paul Schrader
Story: Jake La Motta, Joseph Carter, Peter Savage
Producer: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
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De Niro is always absorbing and credible, even when his character isn't.
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08/04/08
Top Critic
If you've never seen Raging Bull, it's nowhere near as artwank as you've been led to believe.
07/30/08
A classic that has everything to do with the capacity of even highly successful men to cope with life in general, and women in particular.
08/17/07
De Niro and Joe Pesci are impeccable and Cathy Moriarty is iconically sexy.
08/17/07
This savagely authentic film about flawed masculinity is worth seeking out for another viewing if the summer’s toothless blockbuster fodder is getting you down.
08/17/07
Martin Scorsese’s luminous study of a man at war with his own nature remains undimmed after almost 30 years.
08/17/07
Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin turn in a soulful and intelligent screenplay, one that has blood dripping off the pages.
07/09/07
Martin Scorsese makes pictures about the kinds of people you wouldn't want to know.
03/14/07
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I can't pan it, but this 1980 fantasy biography of fighter Jake LaMotta seems unquestionably Martin Scorsese's weakest work, at least to that point in his career.
03/14/07
Top Critic
This film does more than make you think about masculinity, it makes you see it -- in a way that's relevant to all men, not just Bronx boxers.
02/09/06
Scorsese's masterpiece, that should have won the Oscar, is a haunting pschological study of boxer Jake La Motta and the fine line between animalistic brutality and humanity
06/26/05
Jake's inner struggles dovetail with his performance in the ring, and the film
03/22/05
While there's no denying that it's very well acted and flawlessly filmed, Raging Bull is nevertheless...sporadically engaging but mostly overrated...
03/18/05
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