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New York, New York

The war was over and the world was falling in love again.

1977 · 2h 43m · PG Drama, Music, Romance
Directed by Martin Scorsese

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An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.

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58%
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Rotten

If this movie were a big-band arrangement, it would be a duet for a sax man and a girl singer, but with the soloists in a different key from the band.

Christopher Porterfield, TIME Magazine
Fresh

In a final burst from Old Hollywood, Minnelli tears into the title song and it's a wowser.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

Scorsese's tribute/parody/critique of the MGM musical is a razor-sharp dissection of the conventions of both meeting-cute romances and rags-to-riches biopics.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten

Why should a man of Mr. Scorsese's talent be giving us what amounts to no more than a film buff's essay on a pop-film form that was never, at any point in film history, of the first freshness?

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh

Martin Scorsese's New York, New York never pulls itself together into a coherent whole, but if we forgive the movie its confusions we're left with a good time.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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