Rolling Stone
"...GANGS OF NEW YORK is something better than perfect: It's thrillingly alive....A triumph of pure craft and passionate heart..." 01/23/2003 p.75New York Times
"...GANGS OF NEW YORK is an important film as well as an entertaining one. With this project, Mr. Scorsese has made his passionate ethnographic sensibility the vehicle of an especially grand ambition..." 12/20/2002 p.E1 USA Today
"...It has as much greatness in it as any movie this year..." 12/20/2002 p.1E Entertainment Weekly
"...The complicated and brilliant Day-Lewis makes all of old New York come alive; he's the furnace that stokes the story, and he gives off real, exciting heat..." 01/03/2003 p.43-4 Variety
"...GANGS OF NEW YORK bears all the earmarks of a magnum opus for Martin Scorsese....A richly impressive and densely realized work..." 12/02/2002 p.38-44 Premiere
"...Unsparing, hallucinatory, spectacular, it's personal moviemaking on an epic scale, a vision that will take your breath away and hold it for the movie's entire running time..." 02/01/2003 p.20 Film Comment
"...GANGS OF NEW YORK may be the last of its kind -- a costume picture made entirely in a studio by a superbly creative director in collaboration with mater craftspeople..." 01/01/2003 p.24-7 Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...Day-Lewis does a superb job of making the villain charismatic and complex..." 02/01/2003 p.62 Uncut
"Big, brilliant, brutal and beautiful." 02/01/2003 p.100 | 
