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

[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

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

| Jan 22, 2002

Now here is a gangster movie that does not want setups or payoffs like traditional gangster movies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Film after film, Ferrara and St. John are finding new ways to scream.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Nobody spins a good morality yarn like Abel Ferrara.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 1, 1996