"...A fiercely poetic study of violence. Stunningly shot in black-and-white..."
Rolling Stone "RAGING BULL is not simply the greatest boxing movie ever made; Martin Scorsese's 1980 masterpiece is arguably the finest American film released in [that] decade..."
New York Times "...[Scorsese's] most ambitious film as well as his finest....The performance of [De Niro's] career..."
New York Times "...One of the bloodiest and most beautiful reflections on atonement in the Scorsese canon....It is still one of cinema's most breathtaking films..."
Los Angeles Times "...Pesci's performance is the counterpoint to De Niro's, and its equal; their verbal sparring has a kind of crazy music to it....RAGING BULL is the most painful and heartrending portrait of jealousy in the cinema..."
Chicago Sun-Times "De Niro has gone above and beyond. Yet nothing can match his mesmerising performance as middleweight boxing champ Jake LaMotta..."
Total Film "[A] monumental biopic..."
Premiere "[A] troubling, exhilarating, masterfully made study of self-destructive masculinity."
Sight and Sound Ranked #2 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- "'Ultimate' is, for once, an accurate description."
Uncut 5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t is without a doubt De Niro's ultimate immersion into 'The Method', up there with Brando in ON THE WATERFRONT and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE."
Empire
