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2017
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Positive Reviews
60
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4.0
The rest of the movie veers from brilliant to flawed, but it is unfailingly arresting, provocative, and powerful.
Common Sense Media
4.5
Nevertheless, Gangs of New York is a wonderful spectacle and history lesson.
Austin Chronicle
3.5
Nevertheless, Gangs of New York is a wonderful spectacle and history lesson.
Austin Chronicle
4.4
All of this is a triumph for Scorsese, and yet I do not think this film is in the first rank of his masterpieces.It is very good but not great.
Rogerebert
2.5
Is this movie about a love affair between an angry young man and a cute pick pocket
JoBlo
4.2
Dark and bloody and mind blowing, its a history lesson that seems more like fantasy than fact.
Sover
4.4
It may look a lot more like Titanic than Raging Bull, but Scorsese thunders through the film with the passion of a mad conductor, coaxing, forcing, da ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
4.4
Day Lewis goes all out and hits the exaggerated level of the social commentary while making it utterly convincing at the same timemuch like the film i ..
Mark Reviews Movies
4.0
GANGS OF NEW YORK 18, 165 mins WHEN PEOPLE sigh over how tough New York is now, theyre probably talking about queuing an extra few minutes for their l ..
The Times
4.5
Even if you dont believe that America was born in the streets, it is a great yarn just the same.It is one of the best films of the year.
Lariat
3.2
This may often be the case a longer running time frequently gives actors more moments to build their characters and directors more room to develop the ..
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
The story isnt compelling, and the dialogue is portentous and magniloquent.
News Review
4.0
Filled with some sequences and photography that are simply amazing to behold as well as quieter moments that are just as effective, powerful and convi ..
Screen It
4.0
First of all, the film looks absolutely fantastic, with startlingly believable production design that gives us a remarkable insight into this period i ..
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
However, the film doesnt have the drive of Scorseses undisputed masterpiece, Goodfellas it drags where it ought to sweep you along, and ultimately it ..
View London
4.0
The result is something startling a New York western, with all the visceral power and meticulous craft one has come to expect from this great American ..
Film Journal
4.0
Bill is an unabashed moustache twirler out of Victorian melodrama, made fresh again by Day Lewiss gift for self parody.
Smh
5.0
Gangs of New York is, quite honestly, nothing short of a masterpiece a big, sprawling epic of a film with a recognizable yet extremely complex human c ..
Mountain X
5.0
Nevertheless, this remains an astonishing achievement, a film with a passionate sense of life, by one of the greatest filmmakers at work today.
Guardian
3.5
That the film happens to be entertainment in the grand if bloody style is a plus, and the performance of Day Lewis alone makes Gangs of New York worth ..
Reel Talk Reviews
3.1
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
4.2
But summary doesnt capture the hubbub and tumult of this dark, hectic, hard born showpiece, a muddle splashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any Scors ..
Ew
5.0
But Scorsese establishes that the violence will be ferocious and horrific, not exhilarating.
Slate
4.0
An ironic, emotional, gory revision of the American Experiment, marred by narrative problems but sufficiently awesome in its ambitious scale and inten ..
Empire
5.0
And while it is hugely impressive, an achievement of truly epic proportions, often graphic and no doubt pretty accurate, it never pumps your heart wit ..
3.8
I doubt Ill ever be able to look at a smirking fellow in old daguerreotype, with rolled up sleeves and a mustache, and not think of Daniel Day Lewis a ..
Sf Gate
5.0
It both astounds and enthrals, providing a riveting exploration of Americas dark heart.
Bbc
4.0
Theyre not looking to pay for history lessons.Thus Gangs with so many detours in its making, and abraded by Scorseses well publicized struggle with Ha ..
Time
4.0
These people will not do justice to Gangs of New York; it is likely to be remembered more for its lengthy and problematic production history than it i ..
Slant Magazine
1.0
Its as if preferred to concentrate on the production ... rather than on the dramatic issues and, oh yeah, taking up the rear, the human beings who liv ..
Washington Post
3.8
Marshall stages the narrative scenes in a fairly pedestrian manner and pulls out all the glitzy stops for the musical ones, reflecting the new for the ..
Mr Brown Movies
3.8
The finale of the Draft Riots is sheer brilliance in filmmaking, immensely involving, rewarding, and unshakably disturbing all at the same time.
The Movie Boy
4.0
Its a story of violence, revenge, racial intolerance and class struggle, and its a story told extremely well.
Bullz-Eye
3.8
Bill the Butcher is one of the most indelible characters in screen history and Day Lewis can make one laugh out loud in admiration
Reeling Reviews
4.5
But its the almost alien setting of the tale so magnificently brought to life that makes the film so tremendously powerful.
Flickfilosopher
3.8
Narratively, the movie is lacking but when it comes to capturing the tone of a specific locale, the approach of director Ari Gold is without peer.
ReelViews
4.0
Visually yes the film is nearly flawless but Day Lewis superb acting makes this good movie greatand brings out the best in his co stars.
Hollywood
3.5
Its something of the ultimate Scorsese film, with all the stomach turning violence, colorful New York gang lore and other hallmarks of his personal ci ..
Seattle Pi
5.0
The result is a grand American epic, a genre Scorsese has never attempted before.
Cnn
3.8
Every scene is lit to obtrusive perfection and production designed within an inch of its life.
Spliced Wire
3.8
Exacerbating matters is the acting, as De Niro delivers an outrageously over the top performance that effectively leaves Minnelli with little to do ex ..
Reel Film
4.4
Its sheer size and ambition earn it a recommendation and possibly an Oscar or two for the art department.
Movie Habit
3.0
Rosie DiManno: Sometimes, the truth simply will never be known Last week we learned that we likely will never learn the cause of two spectacular myste ..
The Star
3.1
And it pretty much sums up everything thats wrong with the film a long delayed, even longer in production epic from filmmaker Martin Scorsese.
Deseret News
5.0
This battle is just the first of many gruesome bloodlettings in this teeming tale of underclass life in Civil War era New York.
La Weekly
3.8
I did enjoy it for the first two acts, despite a questionable character development and other flaws, but the third act jumps almost into another dimen ..
Varia Gate
3.0
This may be down to overly flashy editing, with the action chopping and changing with unnecessary alacrity.After Braveheart and Gladiator, there is no ..
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
2.5
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Kansas City
3.1
Just as Day works his mojo to hide these flaws, so does Scorcese with a strong fiery visual style, driving pace, passionate characters and a simple un ..
Ross Anthony
5.0
Inked with violently shed blood, that lineage proves wholly riveting.
The Filmy Ap
3.1
Sometimes, when the stars align and the director finds a script for which he is perfectly suited, it can be magic.
Big Picture Big Sound
3.1
Theres too much great filmmaking for it not to be worth seeing, warts and all, but I cant help but feel this is a missed opportunity.
Montreal Film Journal
4.0
At the least, the film is a corrective to the accepted notion that urban violence is a 20th century phenomenon.A western on Mars was Scorseses origina ..
Film Comment
3.0
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
5.0
In trying to create the ultimate vision of his city, Martin Scorsese has created a masterpiece.
Dvd Talk
1.2
Im not convinced that theres anything more at the center of the finished picture than the directors own interest in the subject matter.
Decent Films
2.8
...a big, baggy, sprawling carnival of a movie, stretching out before us with little rhyme or reason.
Flip Side Archive
5.0
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Freep
2.0
Such a mishmash of ideas might be manageable if Gangs had a really strong cast to back the narrative up.
Future Movies
4.0
But ultimately, it is Scorceses history lesson that takes center stage.
Films Nobs
4.5
Something all encompassing and absolutely believable in its coarseness.
Juicy Cerebellum
4.4
This isnt just a movie you watch, after all, but one you experience.
Cinema Phile
3.0
You simply have to applaud the magnitude and ambition of Scorseses vision it really is New York conceived of on a grand scale.
Patrick Nabarro
3.5
Unlike the real world atrocities, the major thrust of this fictional recounting of tribe vs. tribe produces more than the requisite amount of unconsci ..
James Wegg Review
2.8
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Edge Boston
5.0
The masterfully choreographed and superbly edited savagery is wrenching at once horrifying and exhilarating, unspeakable and mesmerizing and it serves ..
Moving Pictures How
1.5
Hes got that magical ability to stand tall, talent wise, in the worst dreck, and hes always scarily effective in period films.
2.0
I didnt like the fight scenes in this film. It doesnt fit together very well.
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