Taxi Driver (1976)

The film is a brilliant nightmare portrait of Travis Bickle's inner world rather than a New York story. It singles out the subjective camerawork and De Niro's veiled, compelling performance for praise.

The critic calls the film an unflinching plunge into the human soul whose anti-hero Travis Bickle remains painfully relevant, treating him with empathy as a war-scarred, isolated man. They single out Bernard Herrmann’s ominous score and De Niro’s restrained, honest performance as creating an impossibly perfect, evocative tone of dread, pity and New York cool.

The critic praises the film's enduring power to unnerve and rivet audiences decades later. Highlights include the tight, darkly funny script by Paul Schrader, Scorsese's directorial fireworks, and De Niro's wired central performance.

Scorsese's film offers one of the most compelling portraits of a psychotic personality on screen, with De Niro superb in the lead. The review highlights the screenplay's case-history approach and the violent intensity of the climax.

The critic calls Taxi Driver a cinematic tour de force and one of the most significant films of 1976. It is praised as a gritty, urgent snapshot of New York’s seedier side that reflects American alienation with unerring accuracy, anchored by Robert De Niro’s compelling performance.

The film is a powerful, frighteningly plausible case history of a quiet loner turning violent, with excellent credit to Scorsese and a smash performance by De Niro. It singles out the quasi-documentary look, Herrmann's score, and the brutal climactic sequence.

The critic calls it an extraordinary film with De Niro delivering a powerhouse performance as Travis Bickle. She praises the supporting cast, cinematography using natural light, and the score for capturing the protagonist's shifting moods.