ABC News, 12/19/2002--Mob Rule: Scorsese Brings Back Epic Filmmaking in Gangs of New York
The Advocate, 1/10/2003--Gangs of New York more interesting than entertaining--NEW, 1/16/2003
Akron Beacon Journal, 12/20/2002--Disorganized Crime: Gangs examines chaotic N.Y. origins, but film remembers humanity
Albuquerque Alibi, 12/19/2002--Gangs of New York: Scorsese Gives His All to a Gangly New Epic
Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, AZ, 12/20/2002--Gangs arrives with epic bang
Arizona Republic,, 12/20/2002--Gangs of New York review (3 out of 5 stars)
Asbury Park Press, 12/20/2002--Gangs of gimmicks: Scorsese gets stuck in a technical time warp (2 out of 4 stars)
Atlanta Constitution-Journal, 12/20/2002--Scorsese's bloody valentine to old New York
Austin American-Statesman, 12/20/2002--Meaner streets: Scorsese's Gangs of New York finally arrives with a barrage of violence, grim details and alas--clichés
Baltimore City Paper, 12/18-12/24/2002--Thug Life
BBC News, 12/10/2002--Gangs of New York review (5 out of 5 stars)
BBC News, 1/10/2003--Gangs loses fight for epic glory
Boston Phoenix, 12/19-12/26/2002--Meaningless streets: Scorsese’s Dead Rabbits society
Boulder Weekly, 12/19/2002--Manhattan mauler
Buffalo News, 12/19/2002--Blood Sport: Martin Scorsese draws inspiration from the dark and violent past of New York's immigrant gang warfare
Calgary Sun, 12/20/2002--Meanest streets
Chicago Sun-Times, 12/20/2002--Roger Ebert's review of Gangs of New York (3-1/2 stars)
Chicago Tribune, 12/20/2002--Magnificent Gangs is the work of a true film master
Cincinnati Citybeat, 12/19/2002--Man against Myth: Gangs of New York betters Two Towers in year-end epic battle
Cincinnati Enquirer, 12/20/2002--Gangs violent, bloody, spectacular: Director Martin Scorsese proves he's at the top of his form in saga of Civil War-era immigrants
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 12/20/2002--New York, 1862--It's a nice place to visit, but only from the safety of a seat in the theater
CNN, 12/19/2002--Epic Gangs Oscar-worthy effort
Coastline Pilot, 12/27/2002--Gangs looks into the dark aspects of early America--NEW, 1/16/2003
Columbus Alive, 12/19/2002--Scorsese loses this gangland battle
Columbus Dispatch, 12/20/2002--When the Big Apple was rotten
Comingsoon.net review of Gangs of New York (8 out of 10)--INCLUDES SPOILER
Contra Costa Times, 12/20/2002--Stagey quality dampens the punch of Gangs
Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA, 1/11/2003--Rumblings about Scorsese epic.
Daily Telegraph, London, 1/10/2003--Daniel's day of glory: Martin Scorsese's long-awaited Gangs of New York is brought alive by a magnificently over-the-top performance from Daniel Day-Lewis.
Dallas Morning News, 12/20/2002--Gangs of New York review (grade A-)
Dayton Daily News, 12/20/2002--Scorsese’s Gangs packs a mighty powerful punch
Daytona Beach News-Journal, 12/20/2002--Scorsese Gangs up on filmgoers
Denver Westword, 12/19/2002--Gangs Mentality
Deseret News, 12/20/2002--Unfocused Gangs rife with gore, mayhem
Detroit Free Press, 12/20/2002--Ambitious Gangs of New York explores that city's brutal, racist beginnings in epic fashion
Detroit News, 12/20/2002--An American tale: Scorsese's Gangs of New York delivers an illuminating history of the city
Ebert & Roeper at the Movies audio of their review of Gangs of New York from their TV show
Ellsworth American, Ellsworth, ME, 1/09/2003--Gangs Is a Mess, But Still the Best
Empire, 1/10/2003--Gangs of New York review (4 out of 5 stars)
Empire Movies review of Gangs of New York (7 out of 10 stars)
Entertainment Weekly, 12/18/2002--Review of Gangs of New York (grade A-)
Fort Worth Weekly, 12/19/2002--The Untruth About Charlie: The streets run with blood in Scorsese's old-fashioned epic Gangs of New York.
Gary, IN, Post-Tribune, 12/20/2002--Gangs examines battle line history
The Guardian, London, 1/10/2003--Guardian Film of the Week: Gangs of New York (5 out of 5 stars)
Hartford Courant, 12/20/2002--Gangs Looks Glorious, But Story Slumps
The Herald, Glasgow, 1/09/2003--The Gangs is all there
Hollywood Reporter, 12/06/2002--Gangs of New York review
Houston Chronicle, 12/19/2002--Gangs grungy and brilliant but not a masterpiece
The Independent, London, 1/08/2003--Gangs of New York: Grisly characters walk tall in this colossal work
Indianapolis Star, 12/20/2002--Gangs delivers rousing history lesson
Jacksonville Times-Union, 12/20/2002--Coarse, unruly 'Gangs' packs powerful punch
Kansas City Star, 12/20/2002--Gangs of New York: Scorsese's bloody history of the city is messy but unforgettable
Knoxville News-Sentinel, 12/20/2002--Scorsese masterfully captures tumultuous, violent era
Las Vegas City Life, 12/19/2002--Mean streets: With the oppressive, throbbing Gangs of New York Martin Scorsese returns to familiar brutal turf
Las Vegas Review-Journal, 12/20/2002--Growing Pains: Director Martin Scorsese's epic Gangs of New York captures an adolescent America
Lawrence Journal World (Lawrence, KS), 12/20/2002--Gangs of New York disbands at end
Long Beach Press Telegram, 12/19/2002--When N.Y.'s murderin' canyons roared
Los Angeles Times, 12/20/2002--Murder, revenge ... apathy: Scorsese's overstuffed Gangs of New York lacks anything resembling soul.
Los Angeles Weekly, 12/20-12/26/2002--The Butcher and His Boy
MegaStar, Lancashire, UK, 1/06/2003--Review of Gangs of New York (3 out of 5 stars)
Memphis Commercial Appeal, 12/20/2002--Fearsome spectacle: Gangs a sprawling epic of our violent secret past (3 out of 4 stars)
Miami Herald, 12/20/2002--Tough Gangs' just doesn't give its all
Milwaukee Journal Star, 12/20/2002--Day-Lewis gives unfocused Gangs fighting chance to shine
Milpitas Post, Milpitas, CA, 1/09/2003--Gangs of N.Y.: Heavy Scorsese
Minneapolis City Pages, 12/18/2002--Mean Streets--The Prequel
Minneapolis Star Tribune, 12/20/2002--Daniel Day-Lewis is bloody marvelous in Gangs of New York
National Post, Canada, 12/20/2002--Scorsese delivers a beautiful mess
Newsweek, 12/23/2002--Just in Time for Christmas (multiple movie reviews including Gangs of New York)
New Orleans Times-Picayune, 12/20/2002--Ready to Rumble: Story is weak link in Gangs of New York, a technical masterpiece from Scorsese
New York magazine, 12/23/2002--Old-World Charm: In Gangs of New York, Martin Scorsese creates a nineteenth-century Gotham that is stunningly unfamiliar, but the same can't be said of his characters.
New York Observer, 12/19/2002--Gangs Looks Good, But Disappoints
New York Daily News, 12/19/2002--Scorsese & the age of violence
New York Newsday, 12/20/2002--Scorsese's New Mean Streets: Gangs of New York has blood but needs more guts
New York Post, 12/20/2002--Gangs not all here
New York Times, 12/20/2002--To Feel a City Seethe as Modernity Is Born
The New Yorker, 12/16/2002--For the love of fighting
Newark Star-Ledger, 12/20/2002--Like gang busters--It's vintage Scorsese as the Goodfellas director puts his stamp on the mob--this time the Irish -- in the riveting Gangs of New York
The Observer, London, 1/12/2003--Scorsese paints the town
red: Blood is the dominant motif of a flawed but astonishing depiction of the struggle for America's soul
The Oklahoman, 12/20/2002--Gangs all here, full of Oscar contention
The Oregonian, 12/20/2002--Review of Gangs of New York (grade B)
Orlando Sentinel, 12/20/2002--Jay Boyar's review of Gangs of New York (2 out of 5 stars)
Orlando Sentinel, 12/20/2002--Roger Moore's review of Gangs of New York (3 out of 5 stars)
Philadelphia City Paper, 12/19-12/25/2002--Gunga Din: Gangs of New York is an epic so noisy you can't hear a thing
Philadelphia Daily News, 12/20/2002--Gangs tells of a city's violent history
Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/20/2002--A would-be Godfather unspools
Philadelphia Weekly, 12/19/2002--Marty's masterstroke: The sublime, harrowing Gangs of New York is America's history writ large--and in blood
Phoenix New Times, 12/19/2002--Meaner Streets
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12/20/2002--Mean streets come alive in Gangs
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 12/20/2002--Scorsese's impressive-looking epic arrives with a few holes in it
Premiere magazine, January 2003--Reviews of Gangs of New York (both 4 stars)--NEW, 1/16/2003
Providence Journal, 12/20/2002--History made violently memorable
Raleigh News and Observer, 12/20/2002--A sprawling brawl
Richmond Times-Dispatch, 12/20/2002--Not Quite Gangbusters: But fair number of halfway decent scenes counteract film's many terrible moments
Rolling Stone magazine, 1/23/2003--Blood on the Streets: A brutal, brilliant epic takes on the violence that is hard-wired into the American character (4 out of 4 stars)
Sacramento Bee, 12/20/2002--Not quite gangbusters: Scorsese's Gangs marred by standard revenge plot, unappealing characters
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/20/2002--Gangs of New York is the choicest product of the filmmaker's art
St. Paul Pioneer Press, 12/20/2002--Gangs has more style than substance (2 stars)
Salon, 12/20/2002--Gangs of New York: Gunsmoke meets Planet of the Apes in Martin Scorsese's overlarge, overcooked epic of 19th century Manhattan. You should see it anyway.
Salt Lake Tribune, 12/20/2002--Scorsese's Gangs of New York Overfills the Melting Pot
San Antonio Prime Time Newspapers, 12/19/2002--Scorsese goes plot-crazy in Gangs of New York
San Diego Reader, 12/19/2002--Season for Receiving
San Diego Union-Tribune, 12/19/2002--The Gangs That Couldn't Shoot Straight
San Francisco Bay Guardian, 12/19/2002--Meaner streets: Scorsese's epic misfire, Gangs of New York, draws blood
San Francisco Chronicle, 12/20/2002--Warring of the green: Scorsese gets his Irish up in Gangs of New York
San Francisco Examiner, 12/20/2002--True grit
San Jose Mercury News, 12/19/2002--Scorsese's New York opus is a tale of no consequence
San Jose Metro, 12/19/2002--Bury the Hatchet: Gangs of New York isn't ready to rumble
The Scotsman, 1/09/2003--Hostage to hype
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 12/20/2002--Harrowing violence undercuts Gangs
Seattle Times, 12/20/2002--Brutal, ambitious 'Gangs' is just shy of great
Seattle Weekly, 12/18/2002--Natural Bored Killers
Staten Island Advance, 12/20/2002--Gangs finds Scorsese in top form: This is the legendary director's best film since 1980s Raging Bull
Sunday Herald, Scotland, 1/05/2003--Mean Streets: Martin Scorsese's epic take on the early days of New York City is flawed but too overwhelmingly muscular to ignore
Tacoma News Tribune, 12/20/2002--Cold violence, tribal intrigue set Gangs of New York apart
Tampa Weekly Planet, 12/19/2002--History of the World, Parts One and Two: Gangs of New York and The Two Towers epitomize epic entertainment
Time magazine, 12/23/2002--Have a Very Leo Noel
The Times, London, 1/09/2003--Gangs of New York review (2 out of 5 stars)
Toledo Blade, 12/20/2002--Scorsese's latest flick is a brilliant but flawed epic
Toronto Sun, 12/20/2002--KNOCKOUT!
Scorsese's Gangs Of New York a captivating fight to the finish
Tucson Citizen, 12/19/2002--Gangs shows America's gritty sins
USA Today, 12/19/2002--Gangs makes for arrestingly ambitious moviegoing
Village Voice, 12/18-12/24/2002--Vice City
Washington Post, 12/19/2002--Scorsese's Gangs: N.Y.'s Finest
Westchester Journal News (NY), 12/19/2002--Review of Gangs of New York (grade A)
Willamette Week, 12/19/2002--The Clash of Titans
Winston Salem Journal, 12/20/2002--Savage Streets: Scorsese's dream project achieves epic proportions
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