To look at Bringing Out the Dead --to look, indeed, at almost any Scorsese film--is to be reminded that film can touch us urgently and deeply.Read Full Review »
90
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Cage, who gives a blazing, imposive performance, uses his haunted eyes to reveal the emotional scars that Frank can't heal.Read Full Review »
In a role as tailor-made for him as the story is for its writer and director, Nicolas Cage anchors the movie with one of his best performances.Read Full Review »
80
Time: Richard Schickel
Like its title -- blunt, thruthful, uncompromising. It is hard on an audience, even harrowing. But that's exactly what Martin Scorsese was put on earth to do.Read Full Review »
80
The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
An intense, volatile film full of sorrow and wild, mordant humor.Read Full Review »
75
Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Develops microclimates of mood without fully developing the same shadings of character.Read Full Review »
70
Village Voice: J. Hoberman
The mood is less angst-ridden than hypercaffeinated, as Scorsese keeps cranking the velocity-bloodbath in the reggae inferno, exploding skyline pietà, climactic white light of redemption.Read Full Review »
While heartfelt and beautifully crafted, Bringing Out the Dead is too freighted with its protagonist's failed savior complex and is surprisingly lacking in primal impact.Read Full Review »
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