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100To look at Bringing Out the Dead --to look, indeed, at almost any Scorsese film--is to be reminded that film can touch us urgently and deeply.
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100Blazes up constantly with a stunning, off-kilter brilliance, an incandescent force that sometimes explodes the space between us and the screen.
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100Potentially oppressive subject matter is redeemed by impeccable moral integrity and stunning artistry.
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90Cage, who gives a blazing, imposive performance, uses his haunted eyes to reveal the emotional scars that Frank can't heal.
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90Certainly one of his (Scorsese's) most profound works.
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90Full of bravura moments and high-wire performances.
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88It's a slice of life, with all the trimmings, and one of the strongest films of the year.
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88In a role as tailor-made for him as the story is for its writer and director, Nicolas Cage anchors the movie with one of his best performances.
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80An intense, volatile film full of sorrow and wild, mordant humor.
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80Like its title -- blunt, thruthful, uncompromising. It is hard on an audience, even harrowing. But that's exactly what Martin Scorsese was put on earth to do.
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80Achieves a poetic, quasi-religious tone.
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80A text that provokes thought more than directs it, which should fascinate new and repeat viewers for a long time.
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78This is Martin Scorsese, and in the end, it's his town, and his show.
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75Equally fascinated by the afflictions of life and the usually squandered opportunities these afford for courage and self-sacrifice.
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75Downbeat and at times strangely slow-moving despite all its beautifully shot high-speed ambulance rides.
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75Develops microclimates of mood without fully developing the same shadings of character.
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75An ecstatic sensory experience so overloaded it hardly matters that the narrative has been placed on a back burner.
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75Filled with so much heartbreaking beauty, Bringing Out the Dead might be best described as an artist's sketchbook, a series of tableaux and ideas that provide a telling glimpse of a director whose work is always evolving.
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74There's talent to burn in this movie. But the flame is cold.
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70The mood is less angst-ridden than hypercaffeinated, as Scorsese keeps cranking the velocity-bloodbath in the reggae inferno, exploding skyline pietà, climactic white light of redemption.
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70Fans of the greatest working film director will be pleased.
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67Works more in your head than on the screen.
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67Although it tries continually to focus on the heart, it ultimately fails to ignite it.
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67Has a certain morbid fascination, but it has no real bite, and finally seems so contrived and pointless it borders on being out-and-out exploitation.
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63While heartfelt and beautifully crafted, Bringing Out the Dead is too freighted with its protagonist's failed savior complex and is surprisingly lacking in primal impact.
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60(Cage's) performance feels embalmed in the accumulated shtick of an actor trapped in excess.
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60Despite moments of gritty greatness that rival Scorsese's best, the movie is severely hampered by please-everyone syndrome, especially in the editing and choice of music.
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50A relentless descent into a psychedelic hell, a rambunctious feel-bad epic.
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50Curiously and disappointingly lethargic.
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50We don't really care about this everyman's moral dilemna and spiritual crisis because -- for all the poetic insights he offers in his philosophical voice-over -- he never transcends the details to become an engrossing character.
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50Doesn't seem to have anything to say.
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50Dances on the edge of flat-lining just like the DOAs that are Frank's stock-in-trade.
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50Doesn't pack the punch of Schrader and Scorsese's career-best collaborations ("Raging Bull," "Taxi Driver").
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40Falls far short of its grim potential.
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Barryw.10This movie is excellent.the acting is superb,and the story deep and full of humor,love,and spritual lessons.i loved the movie.