Reviews

• It is not a "dirty movie," and in fact takes spirituality and morality more seriously than most films do. And in the bad lieutenant, Keitel has given us one of the great screen performances in recent years.

  Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times
  
  29 November 2012

• Not only more crazy than "Reservoir Dogs,'' but it also feels more real.

  Mick LaSalle - The San Francisco Chronicle
  
  29 November 2012

• For all its scenes of degradation (five minutes of which have been shorn for an R-rated cut; we recommend the original NC-17 version), Bad Lieutenant is a deeply moral movie. It's not pretty-it's not even very realistic-but it does matter.

  - Entertainment Weekly
  
  29 November 2012

• For Keitel, this is the Scorsese film that Scorsese never gave him, in which he gets to elbow Robert De Niro away from center stage and take the best part for himself. He seizes the opportunity: Bad Lieutenant immediately becomes one of the defining roles of his career.

  Dave Kehr - The Chicago Tribune
  
  29 November 2012

• Mr. Ferrara has his saving graces, too, the chief one being raw talent, which he continues to display while telling even the most far-fetched story.

  Elvis Mitchell - The New York Times
  
  29 November 2012