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A Bronx Tale

1993

Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra ...

7.8

44,855

Drama Set in the 60s, Robert DeNiro stars in his directorial debut as Lorenzo Anello, a dutiful father and blue-collar bus driver from the harsh New York City borough of the Bronx whom tries desperately to keep his son Calogero from surrendering to the temptation of organized crime. When Calogero witnesses Mafia kingpin Sonny (Chazz Palminteri) commit murder, he decides to honor the "code of the streets" and offers no information to the cops ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'A Bronx Tale' is a very funny movie sometimes, and very touching at other times. It is filled with life and colorful characters and great lines of dialogue (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"The movie is pretty much what you'd expect (...) The story is riddled with absurd coincidences and improbabilities (...) None of these problems stops the movie from being enjoyable"	NEU
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The results may be soft in spots, but it's encouraging to see De Niro go his own way (...) Despite some sentimentality and occasional directorial missteps, this is a respectable piece of work"	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"It's De Niro's sense of place and pace (...) and Palminteri's autobiographical insights into the neighbourhood that make this such a compelling picture (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"There's no denying De Niro's skill in keeping this pungent street epic brimming over with action and laughs without sacrificing intimacy. He is a supreme director of actors"	POS
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"De Niro confirms, with a confident visual style (...) that he knows this time, this place and these people, inside and out (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Appealing though it is in its celebration of ambience and mood, however (...) [it] doesn't have the same tact when it comes to plotting (...) De Niro's direction is always unassuming in the best sense"	NEU
United States	Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"[The script] is rich with characters and life lessons (...) An impressive work (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"[De Niro] gets the music right, the speech rhythms and the faces (...) Not an unalloyed success, but the performances and youthful vigour make up for the somewhat clumsy structure."	NEU

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