Taxi Driver

Name: Taxi Driver
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: February 7, 1976
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 94
Cast: Albert Brooks, Cybill Shepherd, Diahnne Abbott, Frank Adu, Garth Avery

1976

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: February 7, 1976 | R

Starring: Albert Brooks, Cybill Shepherd, Diahnne Abbott, Frank Adu, Garth Avery, Gino Ardito, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle, Robert De Niro, Victor Argo

Summary: Scorsese’s 1976 masterpiece is the all-too-real story of a psychotic New York cabby who is driven to violence in an attempt to rescue a teenage prostitute. [Sony]

Director: Martin Scorsese

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 114 min

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Jamie Graham

Watch this 4K restoration of Scorsese’s ’76 masterpiece, its colours a seeping virus, and marvel that he originally planned to shoot on black-and-white video. Read full review

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William Thomas

The blend of Schrader's script, Scorsese's direction and De Niro's performance is both riveting and unnerving. A film that will stay with you forever. Read full review

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John Bleasdale

Scorsese’s direction always keeps us uncomfortably close to Travis’ subjectivity, whether we’re prowling night time Manhattan or gazing into a glass of Alka-Seltzer until the whole world disappears into the healing hiss. Read full review

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Desson Thomson

It hasn't aged so much as triumphantly metastasized. [20th Anniversary Release] Read full review

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Roger Ebert

The film can be seen as a series of his failed attempts to connect, every one of them hopelessly wrong.... This utter aloneness is at the center of Taxi Driver, one of the best and most powerful of all films, and perhaps it is why so many people connect with it even though Travis Bickle would seem to be the most alienating of movie heroes. We have all felt as alone as Travis. Most of us are better at dealing with it. [20th Anniversary Release] Read full review

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J. Hoberman

Taxi Driver was a powerfully summarizing work. It synthesized noir, neorealist, and New Wave stylistics; it assimilated Hollywood’s recent vigilante cycle, drafting then-déclassé blaxploitation in the service of a presumed tell-it-like-it-is naturalism that, predicated on a frank, unrelenting representation of racism, violence, and misogyny, was even more racist, violent, and misogynist than it allowed. [35th Anniversary Release] Read full review

Richard Schickel

The movie has an air of recent discovery, of shocked innocence about the tawdry quality of city life that is gratingly naive. The film goes most disastrously wrong when it tries to turn slice-of-life realism into full-scale melodrama. Read full review

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TheWalrus2000

Mar 9, 2013

On my list for one of the best films ever, Taxi Driver is by far Scorsese's best direction ever.

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bobbysmith1405

Jun 3, 2020

One of my all time favorites. I am infatuated by the Travis Bickle character. A man who works long hours driving a taxi, a man who never sleeps. He’s fed up with all the scum in New York, and he’s driven insane. Very well done. Scorsese is undefeated.

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cameronmorewood

Nov 7, 2012

Taxi Driver will always be one of the greatest films of all time. It is the first movie in history to ever flawlessly show the disintegration of the human mind. It is an expert character study and Scorsese's masterpiece.

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Sorry15

Aug 17, 2012

,,Taxi Driver'' is one of Martin Scorsese's masterpieces, a must-see of cinematography, elevated, popular and highly appreciated movie. Scorsese presents a thrilling look over mid 70's New York, through the windshield of Travis's cab. The blurred lights, strong contrasts, steaming,,Taxi Driver'' is one of Martin Scorsese's masterpieces, a must-see of cinematography, elevated, popular and highly appreciated movie. Scorsese presents a thrilling look over mid 70's New York, through the windshield of Travis's cab. The blurred lights, strong contrasts, steaming sewers, wet streets, moving frames creates a powerful image and gives notorious look to this movie. The picture created in ,,Taxi Driver'' become representative and gives a powerful, visual, artistical side to the movie. Travis Bickle is the main character, a taxi driver, veteran of Vietnam War, who takes any taxiing in New York, night or day, with no discrimination (,,It's the same for me''), an outsider to society (,,Loneliness has followed me my whole life'') and life, with no direction to go on, surely affected by the war, a time bomb and a very psychological complex character. ,,Taxi Driver'' is seen through the eyes of taxi driver, Travis, the vision over the city, the insights, the action, all belonging to him. Being psychological complex, Scorsese analyses Travis in broad and comprehensive areas, using the action at which he takes part, dialogues and also monologues of great intensity and moral attitude. De Niro's performance is outstanding, one of the greatest in his career, he gives life to a complex character with an amazing performance. The soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann completes the movie, all the other aspects of it being well-supported by this. The deep contrasts, sleazy sounds, music of saxophone, distressing atmosphere, dreaming state, the resonant power of the main theme elevate this soundtrack to an artistic peak and completes the distressing image of New York in Scorsese's vision. After Travis, the next point as relevance, is the image of New York. Scorsese creates a symbol in representation of New York from multiple points of view, the city is mastery presented through Travis's vision, directing vision and artistic vision (both visual and acoustic). From all the ,,scum'', depraved, vicious social categories to one, complex, lonely, moral character, from a distressing image to the cry of saxophone, from an outstanding direction to art, Scorsese combines all 4 major elements of this movie (the character, the visual, the acoustic, the direction) into an artistic, social and psychological lyric.… Expand

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hermeStalker

Jul 27, 2015

I was stunned by the way Scorsese demonstared the town at night . the movies made at those times were usually about mafia, drug dealers and almost any nonsense matter. but this one was a movie of hope. hope of better future for the town. just take a look at the last moments of movie, itI was stunned by the way Scorsese demonstared the town at night . the movies made at those times were usually about mafia, drug dealers and almost any nonsense matter. but this one was a movie of hope. hope of better future for the town. just take a look at the last moments of movie, it shows the dark sky just the same way as Deniro was seeing it, then the motion of ordinary people emerges. to me , it means the hope of a better future. and this future is made by guys like the cabby.… Expand

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chw

Oct 4, 2014

Taxi Driver was a great Scorsese film. It was not as good as GoodFellas, Hugo, or The Departed, but it WAS better than Casino, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, and Raging Bull.

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dimaclay

Jan 1, 2018

I am starting to see a trend in movie reviews that mimic's restaurant reviews. I would call that trend "by the industry and for the industry". I am sure this movie broke a lot of new ground, but the story was disjointed and didn't really flow at all. Restaurant's seem to do the same thing.I am starting to see a trend in movie reviews that mimic's restaurant reviews. I would call that trend "by the industry and for the industry". I am sure this movie broke a lot of new ground, but the story was disjointed and didn't really flow at all. Restaurant's seem to do the same thing. Food might be inventive with a bunch of flower petals artfully arranged on it will get stunning reviews by critics when everyday eaters might not see the advantage. This movie just had a feel of a collection of 'What would a functional psycho do?' stories. I have seen a lot of classic movies that I do like, so it isn't just that I hate older movies. This movie suffers from a severe case of overrated just like Citizen Kane.… Expand

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