Movie Review for Raging Bull

Summary: The story of Jake LaMotta, a former middlweight boxing champion, whose reputation for tenacity and success in the ring was offset by his troubled domestic life: full of rage, jealousy, and suspicion--particulary towards his wife and manager/brother--which, in the end, left him destitute, alone, and seeking redemption.

                         Reviews of Raging Bull
By Dan Jardine of Apollo Guide (7/0)
            DeNiro is riveting...

By Dan Jardine of Apollo Guide (7/0)
            Filmed in a gritty, naturalistic style in luminescent black and white, Martin Scorsese's tortuous...

By Phil Villarreal of Arizona Daily Star (7/0)
            Scorsese and De Niro built up such a rapport that the actor became an extension of the director's...

By Madeleine Williams of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
            This is Scorsese and De Niro at their best.

By Michael Thomson of BBC (7/0)
            ...the power of Scorsese is matched by the intensity of De Niro who delves deep into the soul of ...

By Ty Burr of Boston Globe (7/0)
            The film that many consider the finest of its decade.

                         Reviews of Raging Bull
By Dave Kehr of Chicago Reader (7/0)
            I can't pan it, but this 1980 fantasy biography of fighter Jake LaMotta seems unquestionably Mart...

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
            It's the best film I've seen about the low self-esteem, sexual inadequacy and fear that lead some...

By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            The boxing sequences have little to do with reality, but cinematically they explode.

By Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing (7/0)
            The true power of De Niro's performance rests in his ability to worm his way into this lug's twis...

By Keith H. Brown of Edinburgh U Film Society (7/0)
            Widely acclaimed as both the greatest film of the 1980s and of its director, Martin Scorsese, thi...

By Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.Com (7/0)
            Scorsese's masterpiece, that should have won the Oscar, is a haunting pschological study of boxer...

                         Reviews of Raging Bull
By Damian Cannon of Empire Magazine (7/0)
            ...stunningly acted and emotionally unsettling.

By Jay Antani of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            a work of religious devotion by a filmmaker to his craft and an apotheosis of Scorsese's promise

By MaryAnn Johanson of Flick Filosopher (7/0)
            The true story of championship prizefighter Jake La Motta, this is unmannered, unpretentious film...

By Glenn Abel of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
            An underdog in its day and a classic today.

By Leo Goldsmith of Not Coming to a Theater Near You (7/0)
            Jake's inner struggles dovetail with his performance in the ring, and the film

By Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin turn in a soulful and intelligent screenplay, one that has blood ...

                         Reviews of Raging Bull
By Frédéric Rochefort-Allie of Panorama (7/0)
            Si on nomme la boxe le noble art, sa définition ne fut jamais aussi exacte que pour ce film.

By David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews (7/0)
            While there's no denying that it's very well acted and flawlessly filmed, Raging Bull is neverthe...

By Forrest Hartman of Reno Gazette-Journal (7/0)
            Director Martin Scorsese has a knack for tackling fascinating characters that aren’t altogether s...

By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat of Spirituality and Practice (7/0)
            Raging Bull is a screen biography of Jake La Motta, a searing look at the sport of boxing and a r...

By Tim Dirks of Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films (7/0)
            Raging Bull (1980) is an unrelenting, searing biopic and dramatic tragedy - based on the real lif...

By Jessica Winter of Time Out (7/0)
            This film does more than make you think about masculinity, it makes you see it -- in a way that's...

                         Reviews of Raging Bull
By Joseph McBride of Variety (7/0)
            Martin Scorsese makes pictures about the kinds of people you wouldn't want to know.

By Amy Taubin of Village Voice (7/0)
            The most obvious basis for the film's claim to greatness lies in Scorsese's devastating critique ...

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (3/4) No reference
             the most painful and heartrending portrait of jealousy in the cinema--an 'Othello' for our times...

By Ian Nathan of Empire Magazine (3/4) No reference
            It is certainly the greatest boxing film ever put to celluloid.

By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (3/4) No reference
            ...a great motion picture...

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