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  Review byRida ★★★★★49

  The most frightening thing about Jake LaMotta isn’t his rage. It’s that look in his eyes when he’s caught onto something, when he thinks he has somebody cornered. He latches on to a sentence, or a phrase, and then he repeats it over and over until it starts to take on a different meaning for everybody in the room. He makes himself believe things that aren’t true, perhaps because he wants these things to be true, because he wants to punish himself. But why?

  "You ever think of anybody else when we're in bed?"

  Raging Bull explores the classic Madonna-whore complex: a man falls in love with a woman, and as soon as he touches her, he realizes that other…

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  Review byTravis ★★★26

  Do you think Scorsese and DeNiro have kissed

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  Review bymaria ★★★★½22

  not to be that filmbro bitch but this film was an experience and it changed me

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  Review bySean Fennessey ★★★★★9

  What a sunbeam of positivity and hope.

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  Review bykailey ★★★★6

  how i imagine every conversation went between martin scorsese and robert de niro when it was time to make their new movie, circa 1973-1995

  marty: hey bob

  robert: hey

  marty: so, how would you like to play the worst man of all time? just like, the worst man to ever exist?

  robert *tearing up*: oh man, you just get me as a creator and an actor, don't you?

  (i really liked this, btw.)

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  Review byKarsten ★★★★9

  Up until the halfway point of this I was sort of interested but at the same time not at all engaged with what I was watching or what would happen next. Then the last half happened.  I couldn’t look away and I grew such an appreciation for this story and how it was told.  Each shot, cut, and line is so carefully put together to make it what it is and the result is something so authentic and terrifying to a point where it’s almost hard to watch.  Nothing new to say about the performances or the direction. I am definitely going to be revisiting it just so I can appreciate that first hour a little bit more.

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  Review bydemi adejuyigbe ★★★★7

  This movie makes me feel bad

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  Review bySilentDawn ★★★★★13

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  Never forget Pauline Kael's vicious critique that cuts right into the elaborate ploy of Scorsese and De Niro's tortured spirituality and fractured physicality:

  "I know I’m supposed to be responding to a powerful, ironic realism, but I just feel trapped. Jake says, “You dumb fuck,” and Joey says, “You dumb fuck,” and they repeat it and repeat it. And I think. What am I doing here watching these two dumb fucks?"

  If anything, she's right on the money, but the lack-of-surface, the brutalization for bloodshed's sake, the anguish and abuse simply to experience it, to own that power and wield its blunt force, is probably the most honest indictment of the American male. Whether Scorsese and De Niro found…

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  Review byadambolt ★★★½

  eyyyyyy i'm boxing over herreeeeee

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  Review byEvan ★★★½33

  Kind of overrated if you ask me. Great performance from De Niro though. I just didn't find it that interesting or engaging. It was good, but one of the best movies of all time? I think not.

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  Review byAaron ★★★★★8

  “I’ve done a lot of bad things, Joey. Maybe it’s comin’ back to me. Who knows? I’m a jinx maybe.”

  He loathes himself. His insecurity manifests as rage and mistrust. His outbursts lead to further guilt. In the ring, he will not be knocked down—not because of pugilistic strategy or pride, but because the punishment is his penance. He will take his beating. He has earned it.

  Raging Bull is, like most boxing movies, not really about boxing. It is about Jake La Motta’s (Robert De Niro) inability to comprehend or control his self-destructive impulses. Paranoid and harboring an anger he does not understand, Jake has adopted an inversion of Jesus’ second command: he cannot love his neighbor, as he…

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  Review bySteve Moyle ★★★★★15

  Martin Scorsese had suffered a near fatal cocaine overdose just before this was made and the biography of Jake LaMotta was shown to Scorsese by De Niro during a hospital visit and that's how we eventually got this masterpiece. Scorsese is said to have felt this could have been his last film and it's intensity and rawness can actually be hard to stomach at times but it feels so personal and you just can't look away. The beautiful black and white cinematography and rapid editing is among the most impressive in cinema. Scorsese knows exactly where to place the camera and this film has a great understanding of the power of silence.

  It was one of the first films I…