Ferrara articulates that this is a New York he no longer recognizes; it has to be viewed from afar now, it is invested with a spirit he no longer comprehends. Nevertheless, Devereaux’s downfall must be witnessed in all its unseemly detail...

| Nov 9, 2023

Gerard Depardieu is odious but compelling in Abel Ferrara's dark tale...

| Jun 16, 2021

The contrast between Ferrara's seething hot rage and the cold, clean gloom of his images remains compelling throughout.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2020

Controlling an enigmatic and potent first half, Welcome to New York unfortunately slows in its second, often getting lost in its own rambling justifications.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2019

It's a harshly colored film, an unambiguous statement of disgust, an experiment in how far one can go in vilifying a thinly veiled real person.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2019

Ferrara has created a discomforting vision... In Devereaux, brilliantly played by veteran Gérard Depardieu, the director gives us a monstrously skewed King Lear for the 21st century.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 3, 2019

Strauss-Kahn was found not guilty and if I were him I would sue.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 18, 2017

Queasily compelling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2016

Welcome to New York is a bold, sometimes absurdly funny, and often-horrifying look into the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 6, 2016

Thankfully, the more interesting drama of the aftermath is intact, including Jacqueline Bisset's performance as Devereaux's wife, Simone, channeling a righteous anger not seen since Beatrice Straight in Network.

| Jan 1, 2016

Sordid melodrama, recreating a notorious scandal...

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 24, 2015

Neither shocking nor illuminating, Welcome to New York comes off merely as hero worship of a terrible man who revels in his abuses of power.

| Original Score: C- | May 12, 2015

... a powerful and unflinching teardown of the criminal justice system amid the influence of wealth and political power.

| May 1, 2015

Few actors in the world are better suited to play a gluttonous pig than Gerard Depardieu, and I mean that in the best possible way one can make such an assertion.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.0 | Apr 26, 2015

[The] deliberate structure demonstrates Ferrara's artfulness, as does the lush imagery.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2015

The film, a sleek and oddly moving study in the cost of debauchery, has its gleeful excesses.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2015

Ferrara's portrait of debauched capital, especially in the bison-like corpus of Gerard Depardieu on orgiastic display, libidinous, unrestrained, unvanquished, remains a vital fright.

| Apr 22, 2015

This frank, unruly look at sex, privilege and power unfolds so much like real life that it proves an intriguing and strangely immersive experience.

| Apr 16, 2015

Who better to play a world-class letch than Depardieu, whose Rabelaisian excesses on and off screen are legendary?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2015

In an Abel Ferrara movie, this sort of damaged, raging, unrepentant bull passes for an antihero.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2015