Review of Mean Streets (1973) by Pauline Kael for The New Yorker — 10 Dec 1997
Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets is a true original of our period, a triumph of personal filmmaking. It has its own hallucinatory look; the characters live in the darkness of bars, with lighting and color just this side of lurid.
It has its own unsettling, episodic rhythm and a high-charged emotional range that is dizzyingly sensual.
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This review of Mean Streets (1973) was written by Pauline Kael and published by The New Yorker on 10 Dec 1997.
Mean Streets has generally received very positive reviews.
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