Martin Scorsese's masterly Taxi Driver both encapsulates and transcends its times.
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02/12/08
Taxi Driver (1976)
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Reviews Counted: 47 Fresh: 47 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.8/10
Rated: 18
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Theatrical Release: 14-07-2006
Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's intense film, a hallmark of 1970s filmmaking, graphically depicts the tragic consequences of urban alienation when a New York City taxi driver goes on a murderous rampage against the pitiable denizens inhabiting the city's underbelly. For psychotic, pistol-packing... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Robert DeNiro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle, Diahnne Abbott
Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenwriter: Paul Schrader
Producer: Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Screenwriter: Paul Schrader
Producer: Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Reviews
If you haven't seen Taxi Driver, your education in film hasn't even begun.
02/12/08
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The blend of Schrader's script, Scorsese's direction and De Niro's performance is both riveting and unnerving. A film that will stay with you forever.
09/23/06
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Is Travis a hero or a monster? The question is never answered to any satisfying degree, and Herrmann's score makes sure of that by always playing up the counterpoint of a scene.
07/22/06
What a mad and brilliant film it is: 1,000-degree proof Seventies cinema.
07/15/06
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New York may have changed, but Taxi Driver is as powerful and painful as ever.
02/09/06
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A movie to educate us about life on darker sides of the soul, or steer us away from living that life. It draws us in with a conviction that makes us feel like we're living it.
07/06/03
Get in and take a nightmare ride on perhaps Scorsese's best picture, the story of Vietnam vet Travis Bickle's fight to win the woman of his dreams in the seedy Big Apple.
03/15/07
Acclaimed for its gritty realism, but it has an equal amount of cinematic reverie.
10/09/06
A grimy film that perfectly reflects its grimy subject matter. Travis Bickle [is] one of film's most complex characters. When you talk about super heroes, he truly is one minus the tights and powers.
09/10/06
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.
01/04/05
A compelling and unsettling film exploring many of the fears, aches and dislocations of contemporary urban life
01/18/04
You may want to argue with Taxi Driver at the end, and with good reason, but it won't be a waste of time.
05/20/03
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