“Scorsese’s direction really is that kinetically brilliant. He shoots his antihero in truly gorgeous black-and-white, using a camera that seems, at times, to be remarkably lucid, as if on ecstasy.”
—Time Out

“It’s the impassioned work of a filmmaker who’s asking huge questions about self-hatred, guilt, the punishment of the human body and the will to survive.”
—The Times (UK)

“A brilliantly claustrophobic portrait of violent compulsion.”
—Slant Magazine

Martin Scorsese’s searing biopic of former middleweight champion Jake LaMotta is adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from LaMotta’s autobiography. Featuring a devastating lead performance from Robert De Niro as LaMotta. With Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty.