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JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Great urban drama accurately demonstrates the development of a sociopath within a realistically portrayed city of hell. Travis Bickle seems like a nice guy, who just couldn't take it anymore. Have any of you ever felt the same way in your lifetime? Of ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium
DVDBeaver
Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at DVDBeaver
Damox Movie Review
There are so many words that can be used to describe Taxi Driver. It's beautiful, but ugly at the same time. It's funny, but serious. It's smooth, but gritty. It was the many conflicting emotions that I felt made this movie great. It never tried to ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Damox Movie Review
DVD Journal
Travis Bickle is sick. Unable to sleep, he spends his nights driving a taxi through the crime- and whore-infested neighborhoods of New York City. Days, he subsists on pornography and junk food. He keeps a journal documenting the rot he sees around him ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at DVD Journal
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
In "Taxi Driver," Scorsese exposes the underbelly of New York through Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle (De Niro), a loner who is unable to comprehend the society he lives in. His is the epitome of alienation, constantly trying to connect with others, but ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
DVD Review
âTaxi Driverâ has radically changed Robert DeNiroâs career back in 1976, establishing him as a first class character actor. The reason is blatantly obvious to everyone watching this powerful film by director Martin Scorcese, which sent DeNiro ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at DVD Review
filmcritic.com hails Taxi Driver
A masterpiece of Cold War-era cinema, with De Niro in the role that would define his career and spawn a catchphrase that still endures, but never with the same power. Probably did for cab drivers what Psycho did for showers. ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at filmcritic.com hails Taxi Driver
Natural Born Viewers ("Geeky Marcus")
Can you believe "Taxi Driver" didn't win Best Picture in 1976 and it actually lost to "ROCKY?" I mean, they should f**king torch the Academy for this alone! Plus, Robert De Niro also lost, so should we still give a damn about the Oscars? ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Natural Born Viewers ("Geeky Marcus")
The Flick Filosopher's take
It's hard to look at Taxi Driver with a fresh eye when its main character has come to encapsulate everything stereotypical about the disaffected, angry loners who cause spectacular and public damage to the world. One of those loners adopted Bickle's ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at The Flick Filosopher's take
IndependentCritics.com (Jacob Hall)
On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.
Robert De Niro is Travis Bickle, a former Marine and now Taxi Driver in the cities of New York. Travis is disgusted with the city, and only hopes that "a rain will come ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at IndependentCritics.com (Jacob Hall)
Moviegnome.com
Perhaps the defining performance of De Niro's career, <i>Taxi Driver</i> will no doubt make you think twice the next time you have to take a cab. ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Moviegnome.com
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Most critically acclaimed films go through an awkward middle age on their way to classic status. This is especially the case if a film is influential. Twenty years pass, and audiences are so familiar with the imitators that the original no longer looks ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Edinburgh U Film Society (Matthew Bull)
Legendary for Robert De Niro's intense method performance; Paul Schrader's hard-hitting exisentialist script, a blend of Sartre's La Nausee and the diaries of would-be political assassin Arthur Bremer; and "movie brat" Martin Scorsese's ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Edinburgh U Film Society (Matthew Bull)
Salon (Andrew O'Hehir)
How much more can be said or written about "Taxi Driver," perhaps the quintessential 1970s American film? More people saw "Jaws" and "Star Wars," but "Taxi Driver" changed not only the course of cinema history but of American history at large, ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Salon (Andrew O'Hehir)
At-A-Glance Film Reviews
Taxi Driver, an early film by Martin Scorsese, was a masterful accomplishment of character building. It gave Robert De Niro his trademark line ("Are you talkin' to me?"), it confirmed Martin Scorsese's talent as a director, and the film has become a ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at At-A-Glance Film Reviews
The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
So I fidgeted around for a week trying to watch "Deliverance" for this month's retrospective, sometimes actually playing the DVD, but never managing to concentrate. It's one of my favourite movies, but I couldn't seem to settle down and watch it. ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)
Taxi Driver (1976) is director Martin Scorsese's and screenwriter Paul Schrader's gritty, disturbing, nightmarish modern film classic, that examines alienation in urban society. Scorsese's fourth film, combining elements of film noir, the western, ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)
Reel.com DVD review (Pam Grady)
It seems somehow appropriate that in the current climate of Congressional media-bashing and the breast-beating over America's supposed moral decline that the collector's edition of Martin Scorsese's seminal drama from the 1970s, Taxi Driver, should ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Reel.com DVD review (Pam Grady)
BBCi - Films
From the instant a yellow cab prowls through a cloud of sewer smoke, Scorsese has you in his grasp. His portrait of a neon-daubed hell on earth is more frighteningly real than most horror movies, yet steeped in cinematic allusion: from Travis' noirish ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at BBCi - Films
Guardian/Observer
A mentally unstable Vietnam vet takes a job as a New York cab driver, with tragic ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Guardian/Observer
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver" It is the last line, "Well, I'm the only one here," that never gets quoted. It is the truest line in the film. Travis Bickle exists in "Taxi Driver" as a character with a desperate need to make some kind of contact ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Twenty years after its initial release, Taxi Driver has reached screens in a new, pristine print featuring a remastered stereo soundtrack. And, despite the passage of two decades, the only thing dated about this film are the fashions. ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Empire Magazine (--)
Many years have passed since nutjob cab driver Travis Bickle (De Niro) first washed the scum off the street, and the intervening years have done little to diminish his power to unnerve and rivet.
Bickles odyssey, which sees him date a blonde angel ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Empire Magazine (--)
The Life And Reviews Of Daniel Brader-Classic Review
Martin Scorsese made two of the best films of the 1970âs,one of them was his landmark feature Mean Streets and the other was Taxi Driver :an incredible visceral portrait of loneliness and alienation, which brought to attention the three remarkable ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at The Life And Reviews Of Daniel Brader-Classic Review
The Guardian (Peter Bradshaw)
Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) is being re-presented for its 30th anniversary in the most intelligent context possible - as part of a Bernard Herrmann season at London's National Film Theatre. It was the great movie composer's final score: a compelling ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at The Guardian (Peter Bradshaw)
Light Views, Reviews & Previews (John Larsen)
"Taxi Driver" is one of those film that stays with you. Once you have seen it, it never goes away. Perhaps that is why the American Film Institute chose it as one of the 100 Top Films of all time. "Taxi Driver" has become so ingrained in our modern ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Light Views, Reviews & Previews (John Larsen)
Village Voice (Michael Atkinson)
What can be newly said about this savage, many-headed dragon of the American new wave, a luridly realistic movie about a quiet New York psychopath that became one of the most revered movies of the entire pre-Skywalker century? You either love it or you ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Village Voice (Michael Atkinson)
Steve Rhodes
He falls in love with a beautiful woman in the window of a Senator Charles Palantine (Leonard Harris) for President campaign headquarters. He finds her name is Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), and he even gets her to go on a date with him. They both have an ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Steve Rhodes
Monkeyboy Review
Now, I'll be an honest monkey and lay me monkey nuts on the table at the mercy of a small club hammer and say I preferred Bobby's work in We're No Angels, a vastly underated film, with that Sean Penn fella. It really is a classic, and I can't understand ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Monkeyboy Review
SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
To my mind Martin Scorsese is maybe the greatest of all modern American directors. While other directors may surpass Scorses in terms of style or making big, bold underlined statement films, nobody quite makes films with the ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
CultureDose.net (John Nesbit)
I enjoy movies that invite multiple looksâmovies that linger and haunt for days or even years. Taxi Driver does this. Director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, score composer Bernard Herrmann, and actor Robert De Niro have created a ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at CultureDose.net (John Nesbit)
TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
A landmark of 70s American cinema that announced to the world the arrival of director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader and star Robert De Niro. Though critics remain divided over the ultimate merits of TAXI DRIVER, it is an undeniably ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
It is the last line, "Well, I'm the only one here," that never gets quoted. It is the truest line in the film. Travis Bickle exists in "Taxi Driver" as a character with a desperate need to make some kind of contact somehow--to share or mimic the ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
El Criticon (Antonio Méndez Casanova)
Gran guión de Paul Schrader para este sensacional trabajo de Martin Scorsese en el que el pequeño director retrata las preocupaciones vitales de un insomne y solitario taxista nocturno de la ciudad de Nueva York, antiguo veterano de la guerra del ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at El Criticon (Antonio Méndez Casanova)
TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)
An undeniably brilliant, nightmarish portrait of one man's personal hell. ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)
MovieFreak.com (Dylan Grant)
Taxi Driver is Scorseseâs classic portrait of alienation. DeNiro is Travis Bickle, a recently discharged marine who takes a job driving a cab in New York. The city is hell in Travisâs eyes and in his line of work he runs into every form of ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at MovieFreak.com (Dylan Grant)
Time Out
Itâs almost tempting to see this reissue of Martin Scorseseâs uncomfortably visceral, neon-lit portrait of psychotic urban alienation as the NFTâs sly riposte to âSuperman Returnsâ â a lesson in the dangers of unchecked Messianism and the ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Time Out
eFilmCritic.com (Jason Whyte)
The film's most honest and timeless scene, endlessly quoted and referenced, comes about halfway through the film, shows Robert DeNiro, as Travis Bickle, without shirt and trying to impress his self-image, by looking into a mirror: "You talkin' to me? You ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Jason Whyte)
Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Martin Scorsese's ("The King of Comedy"/"Raging Bull") brilliantly jarring urban psychological drama was inspired by Arthur Bremer's diaries of the would-be assassin of George Wallace. Scorsese does much more with this material, as writer Paul ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Walter Frith
1976. One year after the United States had pulled out of Vietnam and the country had began of new era of recovery. At the tail end of this era, set in a time of one of the worst crime periods in the history of New York City and America in general was ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Walter Frith
Couch of Doom (--)
ToxicUniverse.com (John Nesbit)
I enjoy movies that invite multiple looksâmovies that linger and haunt for days or even years. Taxi Driver does this. Director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, score composer Bernard Herrmann, and actor Robert De Niro have created a ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (John Nesbit)
A Guide to Current DVD (Aaron Beierle)
For a film that's now over 20 years old, this is quite a solid presentation. It's not flawless, but it's very likely a rather giant leap over any previous disc or tape. The 1.85:1 anamorphic picture is crisp and for the most part, clear. Colors are ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at A Guide to Current DVD (Aaron Beierle)
Xiibaro Productions (David Perry)
Martin Scorsese's 1976 opus Taxi Driver opens with a jazz score showing a slow moving taxi cab. With this touch, Scorsese sets up the film, one that becomes a wild ride without ever really picking up speed until the finale.
There have been countless ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Xiibaro Productions (David Perry)
Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
"TAXI DRIVER," a sometimes-elliptical masterpiece about the bloody redemption of an alienated New York cabbie, has been rereleased to mark its 20th anniversary. But it hasn't aged so much as triumphantly metastasized. Since the mid-1970s, the movie ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Boxoffice Magazine
One of the most controversial films of '76 is Martin Scorsese's Robert De Niro starrer for Columbia. Paul Schrader's script is a combination of "Mean Streets" and "Death Wish," plus an unblinking view of New York's seamier side which could very ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Boxoffice Magazine
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
"Taxi Driver" shouldn't be taken as a New York film; it's not about a city but about the weathers of a man's soul, and out of all New York he selects just those elements that feed and ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
In March 1977, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences committed another in their seemingly-endless series of injustices, awarding the Best Picture Oscar to John Avildsen's Rocky, thereby snubbing one of the great modern American classics, ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
An utter masterwork of shifting tones and flowering angst. ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
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The fluorescent lights of the pornographic theaters, hidden in the seedy back pockets of Manhattan, illuminate the grunge of New York City's underbelly. Hookers stand in the slim static circles along the sidewalks, their pimps waiting in the ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at <webmaster@themovieaddict.com>
FilmFocus.Co.UK (Shay Casey)
Regarding Taxi Driver, so much ink has (rightfully) been spilled in praise of both the searing performance of Robert De Niro and the stylish direction of Martin Scorsese that it hardly seems necessary to go into more detail here. Yes, De Niro is ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at FilmFocus.Co.UK (Shay Casey)
cinemusic.net
One night in December 1975, Bernard Herrmann finished the last recordings of his newest masterpiece, Taxi Driver, and then went home to bed with his wife satisfied that the score for Martin Scorsese's new film starring Robert DeNiro as a psychopathic ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at cinemusic.net
Senses of Cinema
The works of Martin Scorsese are rife with instances of allusion. These allusions are particularly in evidence in Taxi Driver (1976), undoubtedly facilitated in part by the film's careful storyboarding. Scorsese says that because of budget constraints, ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Senses of Cinema
Ways of Seeing (Yoel Meranda)
Taxi Driver is about Travis Bickle, a "sick" taxi driver who is both a prophet and/or a mad man. We are never allowed to know what the movie itself thinks of him, we are never told to love him or hate him and the movie never states whether he is ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Ways of Seeing (Yoel Meranda)
Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
Travis Bickle's not a happy man. He's a Vietnam veteran who just got back in New York. He doesn't really need money but he becomes a cab driver anyway because he can't sleep at night. His mind is playing tricks on him, and he's got some baaad ideas ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
Off-screen
Travis Bickle non ha sonno.
Lavora dodici ore per notte, il giorno resta sveglio. Il taxi di Travis viene dalla nebbia dei tombini, un altro mondo. Bickle si porta dietro il fumo che viene dal sottosuolo anche quando si ferma al bar con i colleghi. Cosa ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Off-screen
Nitrate Online (Carrie Gorringe)
In 1976, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver was released and became his first financially successful feature. Five years later, the film found itself in the unfortunate position of being swallowed whole by the controversy surrounding the link between ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Nitrate Online (Carrie Gorringe)
Expanded Cinemah
New York. Travis Bickle è un ex marine di ventisei anni con un trascorso in Vietnam e da poco congedato. Sofferente dâinsonnia decide di diventare tassista nellâorario notturno. Instabile già di suo, lâesperienza notturna per le strade di N.Y. lo ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Expanded Cinemah
Empire Online
Travis Bickle drives cabs all night. He can't sleep. But what he sees whilst cruising the NY city streets he finds so disgusting that it drives him to a climactic moment of violence, ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Empire Online
iAfrica.com (Andrew Burden)
Taxi Driver warns that no matter how good your intentions, women generally dont appreciate being taken to a porn theatre on the first date. ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at iAfrica.com (Andrew Burden)
Movie Views (Ryan Cracknell)
A grimy film that perfectly reflects its grimy subject matter. Travis Bickle [is] one of film's most complex characters. When you talk about super heroes, he truly is one minus the tights and powers. ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Movie Views (Ryan Cracknell)
Orbital Reviews
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is an ex-marine who decides to become a taxi driver, not because he wants to be or because he is a great driver. He just figures because he has no goals, no direction, and nothing better to do, and the fact that he drives ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Orbital Reviews
Teen Movie Critic (Roger Davidson)
Here is one of many movies that has divided critics over and over again. As with A Clockwork Orange and Blue Velvet, it's hard to know if this is true art, or just one man's sick fantasy. It still shows an interesting portrait of hell, as seen through ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Teen Movie Critic (Roger Davidson)
Movie Reviews UK
The compelling tale of one man's journey into an urban purgatory, Taxi Driver features perhaps De Niro's strongest, most chilling performance. Out on the streets of New York, having served his stint in the Marines, Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is a ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Movie Reviews UK
Netflix (James Rocchi)
Director Martin Scorsese's nightmare vision of Manhattan is important, impulsive work. ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Netflix (James Rocchi)
The BigScreen Cinema Guide - Reader Reviews
Robert De Niro as a socially responsible psycho in this Martin Scorsese film. ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at The BigScreen Cinema Guide - Reader Reviews
Apollo Guide (Dan Jardine)
Perhaps the most powerful American movie made about the modern urban dwellerâs existential angst, Taxi Driver presents an age old paradox - is it sane to be mad in an insane world? - in a provocative and perplexing new way. ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Apollo Guide (Dan Jardine)
DVD Net (Paul Dossett)
n the late 60s, the Old Hollywood studio system was collapsing under decades of romantic comedies and war epics. Studio heads were old and out of touch with young filmgoers, now more likely to be out protesting Vietnam than watching yet another Rock ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at DVD Net (Paul Dossett)
DVD Verdict (Sean McGinnis)
The most important aspect of this disc is the extras included. I will go over them one at a time. First, there is a 70-minute "making of" documentary that includes interviews with director Martin Scorsese, writer Paul Schrader, and actors Robert De ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at DVD Verdict (Sean McGinnis)
Movie Magazine International
It was creepy 20 years ago, and it's creepy now. I'm talking about "Taxi Driver," the mid-70s shocker that catapulted Martin Scorsese onto the Op-Ed pages, Robert De Niro to stardom and Jodie Foster out of child stardom. Reviled in some circles at ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Movie Magazine International
DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)
I have to admit...I had never seen the movie "Taxi Driver" until this last week. I'm in the minority, I know. But, just because I saw it for the first time a few days ago, doesn't mean I can't appreciate it like everyone else does...
In Martin ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)
The Digital Bits
Alright kids -- get off your butts, pull out your check books, get to your favorite DVD shop, and slam down whatever you have to to buy the new edition of Taxi Driver. It has to be, pound for pound, one of the best DVD special editions ever. No -- it's ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at The Digital Bits
Savage Cinema
In Taxi Driver, De Niro plays Travis Bickle, a 26 year old ex-Marine who takes a job driving a New York cab on 12 hour shifts because he can't get to sleep. Unlike his peers, he will take anyone anywhere, and he cruises the neighborhoods where, as he ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Savage Cinema
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
A discharged Vietnam vet works as a cab driver in the tough streets of New York City. He's antisocial and unsavvy about the way the world works, but manages to eke out a workable life for himself. He begins to become obsessed with a woman working for a ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Apollo Movie Guide (Dan Jardine)
Among the most powerful and frightening portraits of modern urban existential angst ever to come to the screen. Robert De Niroâs performance as the tortured, confused and explosive Travis Bickle is unforgettable. Easily one of the best films of its era. ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Apollo Movie Guide (Dan Jardine)
Bright Lights Film Journal
Martin Scorseseâs Taxi Driver is a gritty, disturbing, nightmarish modern film classic that examines alienation in urban society. From a postmodernistâs perspective, it combines the elements of noir, the Western, horror, and urban melodrama as it ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Bright Lights Film Journal
Movie-Vault.com (Dan Smith)
Robert DeNiro gives what will be among his most memorable performances as 26-year-old Travis Bickle, a New York City cab driver who is slowly driven insane by what he perceives as the âfilth and the scumâ of the city. Bickle begins driving a cab ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Movie-Vault.com (Dan Smith)
DVD MovieGuide
Since nine-year-olds weren't part of its target audience, I didn't know much about Taxi Driver upon its initial release in 1976. Really, my first introduction to the film came through the parodies of it featured on SCTV (quite possibly the greatest ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at DVD MovieGuide
Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (Harry Knowles)
Hey folks, It's 5 a.m., I'm laying here and I want to go to sleep. I have a lot to do tomorrow or today or whatever the correct vernacular may be. But I'm not asleep. Instead having survived a day in which the British invaded my home, Count Orlack ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (Harry Knowles)
allesfilm.com (Stefan Oswald)
Der Film hat zur Zeit seiner Veröffentlichung einen "Nerv" getroffen.
Der unerwartete Erfolg an den Kassen überraschte selbst die Macher. Daran mag wohl auch die, für das damalige Publikum eher ungewohnte Gewaltdarstellung gegen Ende des Filmes ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at allesfilm.com (Stefan Oswald)
Long Che Chan
Martin Scorsese's films don't age. Taxi Driver is one of his most timeless efforts, along with The Last Temptation of Christ, Mean Streets, GoodFellas, and Raging Bull. His films are usually filled with overt anger and fury at society, the mob, New ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Long Che Chan
CineFile : il Cinema in Rete (Fabrizio Formenti)
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), ex veterano della guerra del Vietnam, prova a scacciare incubi e tormenti improvvisandosi conducente di taxi. Quest'esperienza non farà però che acuirne il disagio e l'insofferenza nei confronti dell'ambiente ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at CineFile : il Cinema in Rete (Fabrizio Formenti)
Draxblog Movie Reviews
When people are talking about good old times, they actually want to make some bad times look better. Nice example of such behaviour is contemporary attitude of popular media towards the 1970s. For new generations, Superseventies are the lost Golden Age ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Draxblog Movie Reviews
Dragan Antulov
As many great movies that got cult status through the years, TAXI DRIVER became the object of many interpretations. For some critics and scholars it is an exploration of universal subjects that date back to Dostoyevski loss of moral compass in a bleak ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Dragan Antulov
Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
Travis Bickle (Robert de Niro) is a lonely, frustrated, and disoriented young Vietnam veteran from the Midwest who is working as a night cabbie in Manhattan. He despises "Sin City" with all its pimps and prostitutes, pushers and perverts. As a taxi ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
San Francisco Examiner (Bob Stephens)
THIS YEAR marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Martin Scorsese's landmark film, "Taxi Driver." Two decades ago, the movie audience, terrified and overwhelmed by urban crime, readily responded to any film about heroic vigilantism. So ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at San Francisco Examiner (Bob Stephens)
Tucson Weekly (James DiGiovanna)
Robert DeNiro has some bad ideas in his head in this Martin Scorcese masterpiece. Its script, by Paul Schrader, is poetic enough to commit to memory; the acting, by DeNiro and Peter Boyle, is seamless; and the story moves insistently without succumbing ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Tucson Weekly (James DiGiovanna)
Film e Dvd
Travis, un reduce del Vietnam, fa il tassista nel turno notturno a New York. Un giorno si innamora di Betsy che lo ricambia, ma lui rovina tutto portandola in un cinema a luce rosse. Da quel momento, Travis, entra in crisi e decide di diventare un ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Film e Dvd
Chad Polenz
What's great about the movies is they allow us to get to know anonymous strangers. Usually the characters we meet are likable and relatable, but "Taxi Driver" tries to rob us of the innocence we're used to with a character study of a person ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Chad Polenz
Planet Confusion
Wie ein U-Boot gleitet das Taxi durch ein Wolkenmeer. Risse im Dampf. Am Grund des Meeres. Die Schluchten des nächtlichen New York. Aus den Kanaldeckeln wachsen Ungeheuer von Nebel. Wassergüsse, Farbschlieren ziehen über die Scheiben. Auf dem Gesicht ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Planet Confusion
Moviemaven's Haven
Everyone knows..."You talking to me? You talking to me?" But few knew the character. Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is referring to himself. He seems so alone that he wonders if he's talking to himself. He's a Vietnam veteran that is at a loss for ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at Moviemaven's Haven
The MovieHamlet (Stefan Hedmark)
Travis Bickle canât stand the streets of New York. Heâs waiting for the rain that will wash the trash off the streets, all the thieves, murderers, queers, pimps, hookers. Theyâre all the same to him. He canât sleep, which is why he gets a job as ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at The MovieHamlet (Stefan Hedmark)
The Fresh Films Review (Norwegian)
Scorseses forstyrrende mørkmalte og bevisst stiliserte Taxi Driver er en tour-de-force i pessimistisk syn på det moderne urbane liv portrettert gjennom tykke lag med isolasjon og fremmedgjøring. Han setter menneskets grunnleggende godhet på prøve, ...read the complete Taxi Driver movie review at The Fresh Films Review (Norwegian)
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