Rolling Stone "...A fiercely poetic study of violence. Stunningly shot in black-and-white..." 12/14/1989 p.23New York Times "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..." 08/04/2000 p.E23 New York Times "...[Scorsese's] most ambitious film as well as his finest....The performance of [De Niro's] career..."| 11/14/1980 p.C11 Los Angeles 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..." 01/05/1990 p.F8 Chicago Sun-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..." 05/10/1998 p.5 Total Film "De Niro has gone above and beyond. Yet nothing can match his mesmerising performance as middleweight boxing champ Jake LaMotta..." 03/01/2004 p.5 Premiere "[A] monumental biopic..." 02/01/2005 p.107 Sight and Sound "[A] troubling, exhilarating, masterfully made study of self-destructive masculinity." 11/01/2005 p.90 Uncut Ranked #2 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- "'Ultimate' is, for once, an accurate description." 01/01/2006 p.84-85 Empire 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." 09/01/2007 p.59 |