If this is Scorsese's bid for the commercial big time, then let the cash registers ring.
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Impressive moviemaking, showing Scorsese as a master of a traditional Hollywood genre.
70
Washington Post
Washington Post
It's a brutal, demonic film with a grip like a vise; it grabs you early, its fingers around your throat, and never lets go.
70
TV Guide Magazine
TV Guide Magazine
An exercise in audience manipulation, with every frame designed to stagger the senses.
60
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Even as a simple genre picture it works only in fits and starts.
60
The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The movie keeps insisting that the gruelling experience it's putting us through is really meant to edify us; it drags us into the mud and then tells us that we haven't got dirty.