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Movie Overview
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio
Daniel Day-Lewis
Cameron Diaz
Director
Martin Scorsese
MPAA Rating
R - For intense strong violence, sexuality/nudity, and language
Gangs of New York (2002)
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88/100
"A monumental tale of hatred and prejudice, boasting a magnificent performance by Daniel Day-Lewis. Not only among the year's, but also Scorcese's best."
Apollo Guide
Dan Jardine
88/100
"It will be a film that, in decades hence, will only grow in stature and importance."
Apollo Guide
Dan Jardine
C+
"Martin Scorcese delivers an enormous blowout of a film, a biopic of New York in the 1800s... but it’s too much bombast and far too loose."
EDGE Boston
David Foucher
3.5/4
"As you watch it unfold, you find yourself understanding exactly why the man behind the camera remains such a significant influence in modern cinema. This isn't just a movie you watch, after all, but one you experience."
Cinemaphile.org
David Keyes
3/4
"...not quite the masterpiece we've been hoping for."
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
A-
"It's a glorious spectacle like those D.W. Griffith made in the early days of silent film."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
"Entertainment in the grand if bloody style -- and the performance of Day-Lewis alone makes this film worth the effort."
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
3/4
"
Gangs of New York
is flawed and has several slow patches, and that is the bad news. The good news is that, on every other account, it is a remarkably ambitious and deeply powerful masterwork."
DustinPutman.com
Dustin Putman
"(...) Sería otra película, quizá no menos interesante pero sí menos hipnótica, si no fuera por Daniel Day-Lewis."
Uruguay Total
Enrique Buchichio
3/4
"Ironic how a film about the struggle for independence in America would succumb to a director losing his artistic freedom to recount it."
eFilmCritic.com
Erik Childress
B
"One of the darkest visions of humanity I have ever seen."
Film Blather
Eugene Novikov
B+
"A powerful, compelling and intelligent if imperfect work...a film of enormous ambition which realizes its aims more often than not."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
A-
"A very good film sits in the place where a masterpiece should be."
Mixed Reviews
Gabriel Shanks
3/4
"Despite some reservations, however, the movie never lost my interest, and I consider it to be worth a trip to a theater to see."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
2.5/4
"Epic in virtually every sense of the word, the film is nonetheless slow and awkward in telling its revenge story"
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
3/5
"Scorsese's New York tale is a curiously cramped epic, roaring with blood and thunder -- but with nothing to say."
Netflix
James Rocchi
6/10
"Without a strongly-told story,
Gangs of New York
feels more like an over-stuffed history lesson."
Window to the Movies
Jeffrey Chen
8/10
"The film is obviously an accomplished product from the hands of a master filmmaker at work."
Screen It!
Jim Judy
5/10
"There's no emotion in this movie. There's no real connection to the lead character."
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
JoBlo
7/10
"...beautifully photographed, vividly presented, brutally engaging."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
3.5/4
"'Visceral, salvaje, visualmente arrebatadora y con una historia que atrapa, Pandillas de Nueva York es un nuevo triunfo en la carrera de uno de los grandes genios incomprendidos del cine.'"
Moviola
Jorge Avila Andrade
1.5/5
"If Scorcese hadn't directed it, no one would even pretend to like it."
Cinerina
Karina Montgomery
2.5/4
"There’s too much great filmmaking for it not to be worth seeing, warts and all, but I can’t help but feel this is a missed opportunity."
Montreal Film Journal
Kevin N. Laforest
B+
"Bill the Butcher is one of the most indelible characters in screen history and Day-Lewis can make one laugh out loud in admiration"
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
9.5
"Gangs of NY es enorme, no sólo en su colosal y ambiciosa producción, sino también en su épica y en la brillante incorporación de elementos clásicos de la narrativa universal."
Cinenganos
Luis Martinez
3.5/4
"When the film reaches and stretches its narrative boundaries and epic ambitious, it’s about as powerful and awe-inspiring a film as has graced the screen this year, and this makes the flaws much, much easier to endure and overlook."
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
"A stunning re-creation not only of period places but also of the period mindset."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
3/4
"The whole may not add up to the sum of its parts, but it's difficult to dismiss the brilliance of those parts."
TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
4/5
"Daniel Day-Lewis gives a performance that can only be called magesterial."
Goatdog's Movies
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
4/4
"Scorsese's film is a real epic, and it's clear that the director has a passion for the subject."
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
2/5
"Martin Scorsese cria um espetáculo visual que não possui alma - um filme esteticamente belo, mas emocionalmente frio."
Cinema em Cena
Pablo Villaca
2/5
"Why did Scorsese spend three decades thirsting to make this movie? It's nowhere clear on the screen."
eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
C+
"…a big, baggy, sprawling carnival of a movie, stretching out before us with little rhyme or reason."
Flipside Movie Emporium
Rob Vaux
A
"Even if you don't believe that "America was born in the streets," it's a great yarn just the same."
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
B
""Gangs of New York" falls short of the mark of such greats by the director as "Raging Bull" and "The Age of Innocence""
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
4.5/5
"A simple vengeance picture inflated to serious epic status by its rich set design and stunning period detail."
Filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell
D-
"I’m not convinced that there’s anything more at the center of the finished picture than the director’s own interest in the subject matter."
Decent Films Guide
Steven D. Greydanus
1.5/4
"Beginning as Martin Scorsese's Apocalypse Now, by the end of the auteur's thirty-year dream of Gangs of New York, it more resembles his Titanic."
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
2.5/4
"A disappointing entry in the Scorsese canon."
Oscar Guy
Wesley Lovell
"Click here to see review"
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
B-
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EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
2.5/4
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Big Picture Big Sound
Joe Lozito
8/10
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rec.arts.movies.reviews
Mark R. Leeper
4/4
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Movie Habit
Marty Mapes
4/5
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Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Nell Minow
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In the Dark
Jonathan F. Richards
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Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
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Rich Cline
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