The Guardian February 17, 2016 This is a wholly remarkable film, flaws and all. In fact, even the flaws are significant.
Variety February 23, 2012 It’s a powerful film and a terrific showcase for the versatility of star Robert De Niro.
Bickle is complex, intriguing and never one-note.
google.com August 30, 2009 [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...
Irish Times March 3, 2017 As with John Wayne’s Ethan Edwards (Travis’s spiritual forefather), his thwarted patriarchal possessiveness is not tempered by anything...
New York may have changed, but Taxi Driver is as powerful and painful as ever.
ReelViews January 1, 2000 A masterful psychological study, the depth of which can only fully be appreciated on repeat viewings.
What a mad and brilliant film it is: 1,000-degree proof Seventies cinema.
Slant Magazine March 17, 2011 Hitchcockian unease permeates the film, but so too does a Godardian use of space and a Bressonian focus on obsession heighten the mounting sen...
RogerEbert.com January 1, 2000 Taxi Driver is a brilliant nightmare and like all nightmares it doesn’t tell us half of what we want to know.
Washington Post January 1, 2000 Since the mid-1970s, the movie has become presciently emblematic of our emotionally diseased, violence-prone culture.
Martin Scorsese’s unflinching plunge into the darkest recesses of the human soul feels painfully relevant.
Austin Chronicle January 1, 2000 Its brilliant performances and haunting final Bernard Herrmann score assist in making this classic about as perfect as a movie can be.
You may want to argue with Taxi Driver at the end, and with good reason, but it won’t be a waste of time.
De Niro … manages to be as sad as he is frightening. From his general discomfort with others and his feeble attempts at communication, it’s p...
The heart and soul of Taxi Driver are twisted in a way that can’t be faked or copied.
Austin Chronicle January 1, 2000 Its brilliant performances and haunting final Bernard Herrmann score assist in making this classic about as perfect as a movie can be.
The problem lies less with what the film has to say than the way it says it: the laboriousness with which its sermon on the seeds of fascism is spe...
Village Voice March 15, 2011 Like Werner Herzog’s Aguirre or Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver is auteurist psychodrama.
New Yorker September 6, 2018 No other film has ever dramatized urban indifference so powerfully; at first, here, it’s horrifyingly funny, and then just horrifying.
askmen.com November 4, 2009 Writer Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese made names for themselves with this exquisitely crafted window into the contemporary male psyche...
What strikes you aren’t just the iconic moments, but the little ones.
