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Mean Streets
Made in 27 days on a very modest budget, Mean Streets is arguably Martin Scorsese's first significant film. A hit at the 1973 New York Film Festival, important popular critics like...
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Critical Essay by Richard Combs
If there is one central paradox to Martin Scorsese's movies, it must be their knack for harnessing a single-minded intensity of purpose to an instinct for chargi...
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Critical Essay by Jon Landau
Mean Streets, the most original American movie of the year, doesn't just explode—it erupts with volcanic force. It is a shocking, jolting, even pulverizing v...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
Martin Scorsese grew up in New York's Little Italy and has made a film about his home neighborhood. This personal impulse, which would not exactly be hot new...
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Critical Essay by David Denby
[Mean Streets is certainly] a 'little' New York film …, with no stars and not much variety or glamour in the settings—in some respects the mov...
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In the following excerpt, Pechter qualifies his praise for Mean Streets by stressing what he considers the limitations of improvisational acting and Scorsese's consequent failure to establish a...
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Mean Streets
Critical Essay by Richard Combs
