De Niro is utterly believable as the lonely night worker at odds with the city and its vices. His reasoning guides the film narrative; his words characterize the world in our mind and we become sympathetic to his subjective interpretations.
Scorsese's direction, De Niro's anti-hero and Bernard Herrmann's last ever score were a match made in film heaven. Essential viewing,
5 bouts of insomnia out of 5
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Couldn't have said it better.
5 all the way.
5 signs that say organazized for me.
I took the Movie Theater Time Machine back to 1976 tonight and finally got to experience this on the big screen. It was the perfect setting on my way there; dark and rainy, I could see wisps of smoke and hear the faint strains of jazz playing in the background. The theater itself was half-filled with a bunch of low-life creeps like me. It remains one of the quintessential lonely/vigilante movies of all time.
5 sideway glances into the rearview mirror out of 5
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