The Funeral is yet another fresh take on the gangster flick.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 20, 2008

Anticlimactic and unconvincing.

| Original Score: D | Apr 9, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2006

Though directed in different style, thematically, this period movie is a companion piece to King of New York and The Bad Lieutenant, forming an urban crime trilogy and representing Ferrara's best work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 4, 2006

A psychologically strung-out tale stuffed full of ideas and inspired moments.

| Original Score: B | May 29, 2006

A brilliant, very visceral piece of film-making with an infectious strain of morbid humour.

| Jan 26, 2006

The corpse, the corpse, the corpse!

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 14, 2005

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 30, 2005

One of Ferrara's more bearable fims. Solid performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2005

[Ferrara] still finds sharp new ways to explore the nuances of a trite-sounding story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 14, 2004

With a cast like that, one would expect fireworks on the screen. Unfortunately, this never happens.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 1, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 12, 2003

A strong portrait of gangsters from Abel Ferrara, one of cinemas best provocateurs.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 10, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 14, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2002

Some viewers may enjoy watching the lifestyles of the grim and depraved; others will find that sitting through "The Funeral" is like going to celluloid hell.

| Jun 5, 2002

You're engaged on a moral level rarely found in movies about violence.

| Jan 22, 2002