What makes “Gangs of New York” so frustrating is that the bones of a great film are visible.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 1, 2023

I didn't like the fight scenes in this film. It doesn't fit together very well.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 18, 2021

It did have some interesting characters and cool shots with the opening scene. It is definitely one of my least favorite Scorsese films.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 18, 2021

Gangs of New York is a dreadful film, poorly constructed, unconvincing and deeply misanthropic.

| Feb 16, 2021

The production design itself is exquisite in its own right.

| Jan 6, 2021

Martin Scorsese's Les Miserables.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 25, 2019

Gangs of New York is to Fernando Wood's Manhattan what Fellini's Satyricon is to Nero's Rome, with a touch of Monty Python filth on the faces and clothes.

| Jun 27, 2019

You simply have to applaud the magnitude and ambition of Scorsese's vision - it really is New York conceived of on a grand scale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2019

One of the most provocative films from Hollywood in recent times.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 4, 2019

Gangs of New York is one of those haunting failures. I can't get over it; it still gives me a pang every time I think of it. It seemed so filled with potential.

| Oct 31, 2018

It's a punishing piece of work, this Gangs of New York. Spectacular, brilliant, but punishing-basically, one long brawl...

| Apr 10, 2018

The visuals are strong, while the central narrative is weak (a disastrous combination for a long movie). Worst of all, Gangs of New York achieves far too little while trying much too hard.

| Jan 2, 2018

Brilliant but devastating. High schoolers and up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2010

One of Scorsese's weakest films, a wannabe historical epic that's essentially a formulaic revenge saga, lacking unified vision and style. The only reason to see it is Daniel Day-Lewis' vividly compelling performance as Bill the Butcher.

| Original Score: C | Nov 23, 2010

[A] flawed masterpiece.

| Feb 3, 2010

The whole may not add up to the sum of its parts, but it's difficult to dismiss the brilliance of those parts.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 18, 2009

It's a story of such relevance to New York, to America and even to the rest of the world, that just had to be told on film with as much impact as a filmmaker can muster. And Martin Scorsese musters much.

| Oct 18, 2008

The impact is all in the broad strokes of Scorsese's design: the corresponding coming-of-age stories of three confused and violent adolescents: Amsterdam Vallon, New York City, and America. [Blu-Ray]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 30, 2008

Why did Scorsese spend three decades thirsting to make this movie? It's nowhere clear on the screen.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 13, 2008

Gangs becomes a standard revenge opus. And a long one at that.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007