Raging Bull Critic Reviews
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The film that many consider the finest of its decade, Raging Bull, has aged well, and not just because it was filmed in black and white.Read the full review
Another harsh character study, with poignant echoes of "Taxi Driver."Read the full review
The most painful and heartrending portrait of jealousy in the cinema--an "Othello'' for our times.Read the full review
A fiercely poetic study of violence. Stunningly shot in black-and-white. [14 Dec 1989, p.23]Read the full review
One of the bloodiest and most beautiful reflections on atonement in the Scorsese canon... It is still one of cinema's most breathtaking films.Read the full review
The entire film is played at such high pitch it may well exhaust audiences that don't come prepared. And, at the heart of the film, there is the mystery of Jake himself, but that is what separates Raging Bull from all other fight movies, in fact, from most movies about anything. Raging Bull is an achievement.Read the full review
Takes a cold, unflinching look at the violence both inside and outside of the ring.Read the full review
But the boxing sequences are possibly the best ever filmed, and the film captures the intensity of a boxer's life with considerable force.Read the full review
