Martin Scorsese excels at making two kinds of films, and he does each with such ferocious originality and skillful technique that I am convinced that he is the greatest living director, from the United States or anywhere. The first type is the...read the complete King of Comedy, The (1983) review at Film as Art
Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy was a complete box-office failure, and it's not hard to see why: snippets of the movie are funny, while others are rather disturbing, and yet others are simply very sad, but the film's cumulative tone is decidedly...read the complete King of Comedy, The (1983) review at Appreciating Great Trash