"A pitch-perfect collaboration- Schrader's script, Scorsese's direction, De Niro's performance. The tightest, most terrifying examination of masculinity in turmoil."
"No one makes films like Bresson did. Stark and unerring. The simplicity of its aesthetic makes it the most honest and open tale of despair I've seen."
"Bresson refused to make films that were simply 'filmed theatre'. This retelling of the trial (taken from actual transcripts) ends with one of cinema's most devastating images."
"A modern masterpiece. All of Lynch's obsessions (duality, unspecific anxiety, Badalamenti scores, curtains) cohere more elegantly, frighteningly and captivatingly here than anywhere else."