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Film · 1980 · Sports drama
Raging Bull
Directed by Martin Scorsese
1980
★ 9.6 editorial score
Scorsese shot boxing as penance rather than sport, and audiences come out feeling bruised: De Niro's jealousy destroys everyone near him, in the blackest black and white imaginable.
“Taking as his starting point the troubled life of Jake La Motta, the tough New York City kid who slugged his way to the world middleweight boxing championship in 1948 and then went on to lose almost everything, Martin Scorsese has made his most ambitious film as well as his finest. Though "Raging Bull" has only three principal characters, it is a big film, its territory being the landscape of the soul.”
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