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Article: `TAXI DRIVER' STILL A DARK BEAUTY.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 12, 1996
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Byline: Robert Denerstein Rocky Mountain News Film Critic
Taxi Driver
Grade A
Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro; Iris, Jodie Foster; Sport, Harvey Keitel; Tom, Albert Brooks; Wizard, Peter Boyle; Sen. Palatine, Leonard Harris; weird passenger, Martin Scorsese; cab personnel man, Joe Spinell; gun salesman, Steven Prince. A Columbia Pictures re-release. Rated R: Violence, profanity. One week at the Mayan.
Who's it for? Adults.
It has been 20 years since its release, and I'm still not sure what I think of Taxi Driver, a violent beauty of a movie from director Martin Scorsese. Skillfully made and enormously disturbing, Taxi Driver ...