Taxi Driver (1976)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:48
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.7/10
Consensus: A must-see film for movie lovers, this Martin Scorsese masterpiece is as hard-hitting as it is compelling, with Robert De Niro at his best.
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... [More]
Starring: Robert DeNiro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle
Director: Martin Scorsese
Reviews for Taxi Driver
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Martin Scorsese's masterly Taxi Driver both encapsulates and transcends its times. Full Review |
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5/5 |
If you haven't seen Taxi Driver, your education in film hasn't even begun. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
What a mad and brilliant film it is: 1,000-degree proof Seventies cinema. Full Review |
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New York may have changed, but Taxi Driver is as powerful and painful as ever. Full Review |
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10/10 |
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. Full Review |
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96/100 |
Writer Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese made names for themselves with this exquisitely crafted window into the contemporary male psyche. Taxi Driver seems aimless, taking as many u-turns and detours as a cabby does in the night. But it's Full Review |
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[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. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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Acclaimed for its gritty realism, but it has an equal amount of cinematic reverie. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
An utter masterwork of shifting tones and flowering angst. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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Jarring urban psychological drama. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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A compelling and unsettling film exploring many of the fears, aches and dislocations of contemporary urban life Full Review |
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5/5 |
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4/5 |
Powerful drama and portrait of insanity.
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