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Gangs of New York

2002

Martin Scorsese

Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent ...

6.7

71,224

Drama As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in lower Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon (DiCaprio) returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader (Day-Lewis) who killed his father. But Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Long awaited, enormously expensive, endlessly gossiped-about, Martin Scorsese's brutal epic (...) a film flawed and indelible."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The vivid achievement of Scorsese's film is to visualize this history and people it with characters of Dickensian grotesquerie (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"It has not been worth the wait. (...) Scorsese and his team have created a heavy-footed golem of a motion picture, hard to ignore as it throws its weight around but fatally lacking in anything resembling soul."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It's a movie with a thousand times more energy and life and sheer virility than anything else Hollywood has to offer (...) Wonderful spectacle, terrific acting and toweringly great film-making (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"Astonishing and audacious, the film certainly creates a kind of perverse beauty and excitement out of its horrors (...) [It] never gets you inside the story so you understand how the characters feel"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Gangs of New York' is something better than perfect: It’s thrillingly alive (...) You won’t see this kind of epic filmmaking again (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Scott Tobias AV Club	"A grand achievement in history and anthropology (...) The film's main character is America itself, which Scorsese tackles with the peerless technique and exhilarating brio that sets him apart from other major directors"
		Chuck Rudolph Slant	"The film boils over with so much feeling that watching it often borders on unbearable (...) Few films of this scope and size have been as deeply felt (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Angie Errigo Empire	"Sufficiently awesome in its ambitious scale and intentions to rate as a must-see (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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