De Niro's character is too unlikable, and Minnelli is too far out of her element in the improv scenes, but New York, New York contains plenty of amazing sequences.

| Oct 10, 2023

Deceptively decked out in elaborate sets, colorful costumes, and great big production numbers, the film then proceeds to dismantle ’40s movie myths about love, romance, and happy endings.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 10, 2023

The picture itself is more bad than good.

| May 5, 2023

New York, New York is not simply a film in the style of the late Forties but perhaps more than even Scorsese intended — a film essentially about that period itself.

| Aug 30, 2022

Only diehard devotees of Liza Minelli will be enthralled by the curiously anti-musical New York, New York.

| May 23, 2022

Perhaps the best American film of 1977.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 20, 2022

The experiment comes up against one or two intrinsic problems. In a sense the reality of the treatment is inimical to the musical form.

| Oct 27, 2021

A musical directed by the formidably gifted Martin Scorsese ought to be something to make a song and dance about... New York, New York has many rewards, but its good parts don't add up to a satisfactory whole.

| Oct 27, 2021

Scorsese certainly intended a deliberate mismatch, a controlled 'explosion' from which he would harness the escaping energy. In the event, though, the bang is not spectacular.

| Oct 27, 2021

It's nice of Hollywood to let us see women making a success of their work. Pity, though, we're only allowed to see that work and success inasmuch as it carves up their relationships with their fellas.

| Sep 22, 2021

It has an stylized staging that not only serves Scorsese to mount a beautiful tribute to the city that never sleeps and the classic Hollywood musicals, but also to illustrate a tragic tale of love, passion, success and jazz. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 29, 2021

Though rough in the middle, New York, New York features a smashing conclusion. I'm not talking about Minnelli's final number. What's smashing is the ending to the De Niro-Minnelli romance. It has just the right mixture of old and new..

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 19, 2020

If you can sit through 30 interspersed minutes of trivialities, New York, New York emerges victoriously as the musical of the year, and reaffirms Liza Minelli's position as one of the top musical stars, as well as talented actress, on the screen.

| May 27, 2020

Most rewardingly, [it] seems to have effected a kind of opening-out-allowing Scorsese to tackle material more experimentally than in Alice, the characteristic extremes of emotion without the over-determined mechanisms of Taxi Driver.

| Feb 6, 2020

The look and sound of 'New York, New York' may rapturously bring to mind any number of postwar MGM marvels. But its mood suggests outtakes from a scorching psychodrama, rushes from a documentary of a couple imploding.

| Jan 31, 2020

New York, New York, like most Martin Scorsese films, is about the trials and glories of making art.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 28, 2020

If lesser talents were involved, we might consider New York, New York quite passable entertainment, a pleasant collage of old musical movies. But with Scorsese, De Niro and Minnelli on the marquee, we expect more.

| Nov 1, 2019

What makes it such grand entertainment is the music, the costumes of the '40s and two dynamite performances.

| Oct 23, 2019

New York, New York is not the lively and brilliant film it should have been. It is rather a vague and drawn-out story. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 26, 2019

The planning and staging of Scorsese is as brilliant as ever, but the vital vicissitude of these characters remains a mere anecdote. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jan 8, 2019