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100
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Gangs of New York is something better than perfect: It's thrillingly alive.
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91
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Everything is vast and hugely ambitious in Martin Scorsese's magisterial, scrambled historical epic.
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90
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
This is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology, either liberal or conservative. Gangs of New York is nearly a great movie. I suspect that, over time, it will make up the distance.
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90
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Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Scorsese creates a film so resonant that it is both a work of great art and an anthropological document.
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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Rips up the postcards of American history and reassembles them into a violent, blood-soaked story of our bare-knuckled past.
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88
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USA Today Mike Clark
If Martin Scorsese's staggeringly ambitious one-of-a-kind finally has too many flaws to be great, it has as much greatness in it as any movie this year.
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80
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Throbs with an ambition that sends it soaring, then brings it down.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Lacks one thing -- an epic grandeur.
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50
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Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Under its scope and reach and passion, Gangs of New York is pretty ordinary stuff.
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40
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Scorsese and his team have created a heavy-footed golem of a motion picture, hard to ignore as it throws its weight around but fatally lacking in anything resembling soul.
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