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04/09/08
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
74 %
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Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 26
Rotten:9
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Harvey Keitel stars as a nameless New York cop, hopelessy addicted to drugs, gambling, and sex, in this intense, hallucinatory portrait of sin and redemption by Abel Ferrara. The film follows the lieutenant as he makes his way to various... [More]
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Frankie Acciario, Brian McElroy, Peggy Formley
Director: Abel Ferrara
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Reviews for Bad Lieutenant
Keitel is onscreen for pretty much the entire movie and clearly relishes the opportunity of playing someone not so much teetering on the abyss as leaping off with a grand piano manacled to each ankle.
04/09/08
Top Critic Quite possibly Ferrara's finest hour, with an almost unbearably sincere performance from Keitel.
04/09/08
Top Critic Bad Lieutenant is finally a pulp parable of sin, addiction, and redemption, a movie that, like its subversive hero, revels in the pleasure -- and danger -- of going too far.
04/09/08
Abel Ferrara's uncompromising Bad Lieutenant is a harrowing journey with a corrupt N.Y. cop sinking into the lower depths.
04/09/08
Top Critic Though hardly a film for all sensibilities, Bad Lieutenant has the courage of its own convictions, and follows them to the bitter end.
04/09/08
There's an undeniable formal elegance in the way Ferrara, who coauthored the script with Zoe Lund, frames and holds certain shots, and Keitel certainly gives his all.
04/09/08
Ferrara allows his star to dictate the pace, and is rewarded with a performance of extraordinary, terrifying honesty.
01/26/06
Scabrously powerful, the film dives into the addictive psyche, mixing Ferrara's fave elements: sex, drugs, and mayhem. Yet like his other films, it's a morality play about reclaimed sinners desperate for salvation in a world devoid of love and decency.
07/17/05
When Abel Ferrara calls something bad, better believe it: he means business.
05/20/03
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Latest News for Bad Lieutenant
October 03, 2008:
Further Reading: Marion Cotillard and Forest Whittaker in Abel Ferrara's Mary
As the NFT in London prepares a Juliette Binoche season, Kim looks at Abel Ferrara's Mary which also stars Marion Cotillard and Forest Whittaker. More...
July 08, 2008:
Herzog's Bad Lieutenant Grows 
Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis Hall, Shawn Hatosy, Denzel Whitaker and Xzibit have joined Nicolas Cage in the cast of Werner Herzog's "update" of Bad... More...
June 16, 2008:
Eva Mendes in Negotiations for Bad Lieutenant
Eva Mendes is in talks to star opposite Nicolas Cage in Werner Herzog's remake/not-a-remake of Bad Lieutenant. More...
June 05, 2008:
Herzog Shrugs Off Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant Complaints
Werner Herzog has heard that Abel Ferrara is upset about his planned Bad Lieutenant remake, but he isn't concerned -- in fact, he says he's never even seen the original. More...
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