Fresh
It's a powerful film and a terrific showcase for the versatility of star Robert De Niro.
A.D. Murphy, Variety
Taxi Driver
On every street in every city in this country, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody. He's a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he's alive.
1976 · 1h 54m · R
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Martin Scorsese
Overview
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Bickle is complex, intriguing and never one-note.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Fresh
Like Werner Herzog's Aguirre or Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver is auteurist psychodrama.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Rotten
[Scorsese] seems to need scripts with well-designed humor and performers with the spirit of Ellen Burstyn to compensate for what seems to be a fundamentally depressed view of life and the belief that sobriety is the equivalent of seriousness.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Fresh
New York may have changed, but Taxi Driver is as powerful and painful as ever.
Ben Walters, Time Out
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