Bringing Out The Dead 1999

Roger Ebert, At the Movies: Scorsese is never on autopilot, never panders, never sells out, always goes for broke; to watch his films is to see a man risking his talent, not simply exercising it. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Bringing Out the Dead is a screaming siren of a film! Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: The film's postcards from the edge will burn into your consciousness. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: An intense, volatile film full of sorrow and wild, mordant humor. Read more

Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: Its hard-to-pin-down tone is frighteningly original -- simultaneously world-weary and adolescent with an aura of perpetual anxiety, as if the characters and filmmakers were in pursuit of a catharsis everyone knows will never come. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Scorsese has delivered a film that's both savage and sorrowing. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: This film dances on the edge of flat-lining just like the DOAs that are Frank's stock-in-trade. Read more

Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle: This is a film of great beauty, which is found not in its face but in its heart. Read more

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Globe and Mail: The auteur has definitely left his distinctive mark, but too seldom and too narrowly. Read more

David Ansen, Newsweek: Anyone with a taste for high-risk filmmaking won't want to miss it. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Scorsese doesn't trust the power of simplicity to rock us. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Despite the lack of energy and the lethargic pace, there's something darkly compelling about Bringing Out the Dead. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Bringing Out the Dead is curiously and disappointingly lethargic. Read more

Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: Surprisingly funny. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Of course, it's immaculately crafted and exhilaratingly paced, but in the end it's never as emotionally involving as it could and should be. Read more

Emanuel Levy, Variety: Although Scorsese and Schrader may not have pulled off alchemy by transforming an undistinguished piece of literature into a great film, Bringing Out the Dead is still the best adaptation imaginable of its source material. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: The mood is less angst-ridden than hypercaffeinated, as Scorsese keeps cranking the velocity-bloodbath in the reggae inferno, exploding skyline pieta, climactic white light of redemption. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: If you enjoy redemptions drenched in rhapsodic agony, religious mysticism and the bloody ick of emergency room chaos, that journey will be bliss for you. Read more