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Raging Bull
Universal acclaim
Based on 14 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 44 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Jake LaMotta (book)
Joseph Carter & Peter Savage (book)
Paul Schrader
Mardik Martin
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 14, 1980
DVD: February 8, 2005
Running Time: 129 minutes, Color & B / W
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R
Starring Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, Mario Gallo, and Frank Adonis
Scorcese recounts the gritty life self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta (De Niro) who never backs down from a fight on his way to a middleweight title shot.
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Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The most painful and heartrending portrait of jealousy in the cinema--an "Othello'' for our times.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Gene Siskel
Filmed in black-and-white and shockingly well acted by De Niro, Raging Bull suggests that if you are looking for the source of evil in the world, you don't have to look any further than yourself. It's inside you or it isn't. And it comes out or it doesn't. [19 Dec 1980]
Entertainment Weekly Steve Daly
Another harsh character study, with poignant echoes of "Taxi Driver."
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Sheila Benson
One of the bloodiest and most beautiful reflections on atonement in the Scorsese canon... It is still one of cinema's most breathtaking films.
The New York Times Vincent Canby
The entire film is played at such high pitch it may well exhaust audiences that don't come prepared. And, at the heart of the film, there is the mystery of Jake himself, but that is what separates Raging Bull from all other fight movies, in fact, from most movies about anything. Raging Bull is an achievement.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Takes a cold, unflinching look at the violence both inside and outside of the ring.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
A fiercely poetic study of violence. Stunningly shot in black-and-white. [14 Dec 1989, p.23]
Austin Chronicle Michael Bertin
The performances are riveting and the visuals are stunning. The boxing sequences are brutally realistic - there are no crappy Rocky theatrics here - and the humanity oozes out of every scene.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
The film that many consider the finest of its decade, Raging Bull, has aged well, and not just because it was filmed in black and white.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Amy Taubin
What's most stunning about Raging Bull is the tension between 19th-century melodrama and 20th-century psychodrama, the narrative form brought into being by the conjunction of Freudian theory and the mechanics of the movie camera.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jay Scott
The intensity of the film verges on the intolerable.
Read Full Review >Variety Staff (Not Credited)
But the boxing sequences are possibly the best ever filmed, and the film captures the intensity of a boxer's life with considerable force.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Dave Kehr
As LaMotta, Robert De Niro gives a blank, soulless performance; there's so little of depth or urgency coming from him that he's impossible to despise, or forgive, in any but the most superficial way.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.7 (out of 10) based on 44 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
othostice gave it a10:
I lived in Chicago when Kehr was the critic for the Reader. He hated EVERYTHING that wasn't subtitled. What a pretentious little twit. Where is he now? Blogging and writing a column on DVDs for the NYT. If you hate the classics, no one takes you seriously after a while.
Mike gave it a1:
I liked the beginning, but then it became soooo boring!! I bought the movie because I "heard" it was soooo great. What a waste!
Tim J gave it a10:
Just brilliant. One of my favorites. I also love the critical comments from Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader. You have to wonder at some point if he questions his taste.
Moses R. gave it a10:
The greatest biopic of all times....the portrayal of Jake La Motta could not have been done by anyone besides De Niro.
Andrew H. gave it a10:
Required viewing for anyone who likes movies.
Mr. Hankey gave it a10:
This goes as one of Scorcese's classics along with Taxi Driver. Yes it is violent in a boxing way and an abusive way but still you will find superb directing and one of the best performances Deniro has ever given to the screen. Deniro does a fine job of playing Jake LaMotta because he really captures LaMotta as a jealous and as I said before abusive man. By the end of the movie you realize that you may have sat through one of the greatest 80's movies of all time.
Matt H. gave it a10:
Martin Scorsese's ultimate masterpiece. Quite simply the greatest American film ever made, featuring the greatest performance in the history of cinema.
