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starstarstarstar Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Tom Keogh - Film.com
starstarstarstar Richard Schickel - TIME
starstarstarstar Tom Long - Detroit News
starstarstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstarstar Emanuel Levy - Variety
starstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstar Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide

A fiery masterpiece . . . blazes up constantly with a stunning, off-kilter brilliance, an incandescent force that sometimes explodes the space between us and the screen

- Michael Wilmington

Essentially one long howl of despair that starts in the gutter and never really goes anywhere, up or down

- Maitland McDonagh

Bringing Out the Dead

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Martin Scorsese directs Nicolas Cage as a NY ambulance driver who finds himself both numbed and haunted by his depressing work. Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Marc Anthony, Bart DeFinna, Mary Beth Hurt, Aida Turturro. Director: Martin Scorsese (1999, R)

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