The impact is all in the broad strokes of Scorsese's design: the corresponding coming-of-age stories of three confused and violent adolescents: Amsterdam Vallon, New York City, and America. [Blu-Ray]
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Gangs of New York (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 185
Fresh: 140
Rotten:45
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Consensus: Though flawed, the sprawling, messy Gangs of New York is redeemed by impressive production design and Day-Lewis's electrifying performance.
Runtime: 2 hrs 47 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release: Dec 20, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $77,605,296
Synopsis: Director Martin Scorsese revisits New York City's notorious past with this dazzling historical drama. A throwback to the epics of yesteryear, GANGS OF NEW YORK is set in the mid-1800s, when the streets of lower Manhattan were teeming with... [More]
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Reviews for Gangs of New York
Why did Scorsese spend three decades thirsting to make this movie? It's nowhere clear on the screen.
02/13/08
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02/09/06
Day-Lewis's sneering, roaring, monstrous performance as the Butcher will remind you of the seemingly superhuman work Robert DeNiro performed in his prime.
12/06/04
Daniel Day-Lewis' magnetic portrayal of a 19th-century ganglord who butchered his enemies as readily as he carved up a freshly killed hog.
06/23/04
It will be a film that, in decades hence, will only grow in stature and importance.
03/16/04
Gangs of New York is a very good film striving desperately to be great.
01/06/04
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.
10/07/03
Gangs’ editing, suspense, and overall visual style all are evocative of classic Scorsese greats, but rarely has the filmmaker’s thematic eye been so carefully trained.
06/26/03
Gangs Of New York is a magnificent film, and is challengingly about more than the sum of its’ parts.
06/11/03
If Scorcese hadn't directed it, no one would even pretend to like it.
03/17/03
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October 23, 2007:
Scorsese, DiCaprio Reuniting for Shutter Island
Their first three collaborations netted copious amounts of Oscar love and box-office receipts, so it isn't surprising that Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are in no hurry... More...
June 21, 2007:
New "Indy 4" Cast Member: Jim Broadbent
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March 26, 2007:
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It's a hectic time for both Leonardo DiCaprio and his own personal svengali, Martin Scorsese; though both are currently super busy, movie-making bees, they'll make time... More...
February 26, 2007:
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