...a progressively engrossing piece of work that benefits from its remarkably captivating central performance...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 6, 2025

This is the abysmal background of a sort of vomitive cinema. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 2, 2022

This is a powerful movie, but it suffers from the flabbiness of excess.

| Apr 6, 2022

Unfortunately, King of New York can't tear itself from its low-rent heart.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2021

King of New York is an underrated gem that got a bit buried upon its original release.

| Nov 16, 2020

Muscular and kinetic filmmaking at its best.

| Nov 11, 2020

You keep coming back for the ugly, sleazebag electricity and out-of-nowhere violence. Walken glides along it all without his feet ever touching the ground, navigating the movie's mood swings with a dancer's grace.

| Apr 5, 2020

Combining the gangster film with the rise of hip-hop in the late 1980s, and the film carries itself, unlike any crime film that had ever existed.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 16, 2020

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

King of New York's storyline is pretty one-note, but there's an energy and aura of fear lingering in every gritty composition.

| Original Score: 58/100 | Sep 26, 2009

Complementing Walken's bravura turn are equally flamboyant performances by David Caruso as the young Irish cop out to destroy Walken, and Larry Fishburne as Walken's slightly crazy aide-de-camp.

| Mar 26, 2009

Review by Mike Martin - It looks fantastic, and there is an air of real menace to proceedings, but seems to belong to another age somehow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2008

Ferrara began to be taken more seriously by critics with this operatic crime film, which was shown at the NY Film Festival, where it elicited walkouts (including helmer's wife) along with praise.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 19, 2006

A film which, despite splendid location work, lurches sloppily and messily from kill to kill, orgy to orgy, coke to crack, clich to clich.

| Jun 24, 2006

Ferrara's dangerous vision of the city at night goes beyond what most creampuff directors are capable of; he gets to the core of everything from the silent, dark windows of towering penthouses to the vicious rattling of crime-ridden subways.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 26, 2006

Deliciously indecent.

| Original Score: B+ | May 4, 2006

You front like you want Cinema, well this is it kids.

| Original Score: FIVE STARS | Oct 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 4, 2005

Containing performances and and an attitude that is gleefully over-the-top, it's a bit of good fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2005

Vividly conveys the dark side of power.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2004