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Movie Overview
Cast
• Harvey Keitel
• Frankie Acciario
• Brian McElroy
Director
• Abel Ferrara
MPAA Rating
R
Bad Lieutenant (1992)

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OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh
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4/5
"Keitel's performance is perhaps the needed counterpoint to Christopher Walken's ice-cold overlord in Ferrara's visionary crime opus King of New York"  Filmcritic.com  Chris Cabin

C-
"The only truth about this film was the sleaze."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

6/10
"Abel Ferrara [is] one of the most interesting directors in modern American cinema."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Dragan Antulov

2/4
"As good as the lead actor is, he's not enough to save this picture from landing on the scrap-heap of uninspired, derivative, and grotesquely distasteful character studies."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

10/10
"When I think back on watching this film, two thoughts immediately cross my mind. First, it was a terribly unpleasant experience, and secondly, it was a brilliant."  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

4/4
"Ferrara was in the right place at the right time to make Bad Lieutenant."  Slant Magazine  Jeremiah Kipp

A
"[Ferrara's] crowning achievement."  Lessons of Darkness  Nick Schager

5/5
"One of the few truly challenging and morally complex movies about salvation."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves
OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh
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