Review 1:
"...A fiercely poetic study of violence. Stunningly shot in black-and-white..."
Source: Rolling Stone
p.23 12/14/1989
Review 2:
"RAGING BULL is not simply the greatest boxing movie ever made; Martin Scorsese's 1980 masterpiece is arguably the finest American film released in [that] decade..."
Source: New York Times
p.E23 08/04/2000
Review 3:
"...One of the bloodiest and most beautiful reflections on atonement in the Scorsese canon....It is still one of cinema's most breathtaking films..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.F8 01/05/1990
Review 4:
"...Pesci's performance is the counterpoint to De Niro's, and its equal; their verbal sparring has a kind of crazy music to it....RAGING BULL is the most painful and heartrending portrait of jealousy in the cinema..."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
p.5 05/10/1998
Review 5:
"[A] troubling, exhilarating, masterfully made study of self-destructive masculinity."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.90 11/01/2005
Review 6:
Ranked #2 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- "'Ultimate' is, for once, an accurate description."
Source: Uncut
p.84-85 01/01/2006
Review 7:
5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t is without a doubt De Niro's ultimate immersion into 'The Method', up there with Brando in ON THE WATERFRONT and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE."
Source: Empire
p.59 09/01/2007
Review 8:
"...[Scorsese's] most ambitious film as well as his finest....The performance of [De Niro's] career..."
Source: New York Times
p.C11 11/14/1980
Review 9:
"[A] monumental biopic..."
Source: Premiere
p.107 02/01/2005
Review 10:
"De Niro has gone above and beyond. Yet nothing can match his mesmerising performance as middleweight boxing champ Jake LaMotta..."
Source: Total Film
p.5 03/01/2004