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- 1992
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 45 m
- 1992
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 45 m
Summary Cheating and incompetent lawyer Harry Fabian (Robert DeNiro) suddenly gets obsessed with becoming a boxing promoter.
Directed By: Irwin Winkler
Written By: Gerald Kersh, Richard Price
- 1992
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 45 m
- 1992
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 45 m
Night and the City
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Summary Cheating and incompetent lawyer Harry Fabian (Robert DeNiro) suddenly gets obsessed with becoming a boxing promoter.
Directed By: Irwin Winkler
Written By: Gerald Kersh, Richard Price
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Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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59% Positive
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41% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
61
59% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
41% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Directed by Irwin Winkler, the movie's constantly full of big, all-engrossing moments. The performances -- minor and major -- are all superb, from Warden's hard-as-nails boxer to Lange's serene Helen. As De Niro's secret and devoted partner, with business-building dreams of her own, she exudes a graceful, happy-hour serenity.
Winkler's New York is a crowded, bustling place, with construction work on practically ever street corner, yet it has none of the lurid, hothouse atmosphere of a Martin Scorsese film. The cinematography, by the invaluable Tak Fujimoto, is airy and cool, graced by floating camera movements that follow the characters without dogging or confining them. [23 Oct 1992, p.ACN]
Night and the City hits a false note at the finish. Forgive that and relish the movie's snappy, low-life high spirits. [19 Oct 1992, p.67]
For all its promising elements, Night and the City confronts us, yet again, with one of the most dismaying paradoxes in contemporary movies: that the actor who once seemed the heir to Brando, Clift, and, yes, Widmark — the actor who once got so far inside his roles that he just about detonated the screen — now plays characters who don’t seem to have any inner life at all.
Night and the City is the most disappointing big- expectations movie of 1992. It's hard to overstate the magnitude of its failures. There is almost nothing right about it. [23 Oct 1992, p.G5]
Robert De Niro's characterization is too jokey, a knockoff of his Rupert Pupkin ("The King of Comedy"), and Irwin Winkler's direction is earnest but lethargic. Jessica Lange does better as a barmaid who wants her own saloon. [23 Oct 1992, p.CN]
Aside from Robert De Niro and his totally inappropriate performance, the cast is a mixed bag.
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