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Night and the City (1992) Rank 5 Reviews
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Slant Magazine (--)
the genre's fundamental gloominess and urbanity, to the inevitably cataclysmic end for its enterprising protagonist, Night and the City is no less than the archetypal film noir. Jules Dassin's 1950 masterpiece was his first movie after being exiled from ...read the complete Night and the City movie review at Slant Magazine (--)
DVD Talk (David Walker)
Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
New York Times (Janet Maslin)
In "Night and the City," which will be shown at 9 P.M. tomorrow as the closing feature of the New York Film Festival, the glad-handing New York lawyer Harry Fabian (Robert De Niro) is seen making enemies all over town. Harry's career as an ...read the complete Night and the City movie review at New York Times (Janet Maslin)
Washington Post (Desson Howe)
IMDB.com
"Night and the City" tries too hard to be a Scorseselike vision of the original film, but its realism does not always jive with the comedic elements, namely De Niro's performance. De Niro is like a ball of fire and dynamic as a fasttalking shyster, but ...read the complete Night and the City movie review at IMDB.com
EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
An unnecessary remake? judged by the end result. it's hard to tell what motivated Irwin Winkler, a poor director, to redo the Jules Dassin noir classic of the 1940s; perhaps the opportunity to work with De Niro and Jessica Lange, though neither is good ...read the complete Night and the City movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Washington Post (Rita Kempley)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Robert De Niro, who is usually so adept at finding the right note for every performance, finds the wrong one in "Night and the City," a movie based on a 1951 film noir classic that has ...read the complete Night and the City movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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