Brian Costello Common Sense Media Jan 17, 2024

The decades have been kind to A Bronx Tale; years later, this is a movie that has only gotten better with age.

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Danielle Solzman Solzy at the Movies Dec 29, 2023 4/5

In stepping behind the camera for the first time, Robert De Niro hits it a home run with A Bronx Tale.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Oct 14, 2023 3/4

A morality tale brought off with a great amount of style and conviction.

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Wendy Ide The Times (UK) Oct 11, 2022

A solid piece of storytelling...

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Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal Oct 5, 2022 4.5/5

Most generically pigeonholed as a mafia or crime movie. And while a murder and a mobster are integral to its plot, the balls it breaks and the heads it busts are incidental to its power as a coming-of-age story stretching from 1960 to 1968.

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Malcolm L. Johnson Hartford Courant May 14, 2018

De Niro deepens his portrait of a son and two fathers with a wonderfully expansive sense of place and time.

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Quentin Curtis Independent on Sunday Nov 29, 2017

It's a cautious, capable start to De Niro's directing career.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 B

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Todd McCarthy Variety Nov 26, 2008

A “GoodFellas” with heart, “A Bronx Tale” represents a wonderfully vivid snapshot of a colorful place and time, as well as a very satisfying directorial debut by Robert De Niro.

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David Ansen Newsweek Mar 31, 2008

A Bronx Tale is a deliciously well-observed memory piece about growing up in the '60s that marks the vital debut of director Robert De Niro.

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Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com Jan 20, 2007 3/5

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Lori Hoffman Atlantic City Weekly Jan 11, 2007 3/5

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Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness Oct 19, 2006 C

It's the moralistic tenor of A Bronx Tale that's ultimately most off-putting.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com May 7, 2006 3/4

De Niro's feature directorial debut is not a second-tier Scorsese film. Though telling a familiar coming-of-age story, it finds a new angle in depicting the irrational and subconscious origins of racism.

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Jan 10, 2006 4/5

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Dec 25, 2005 B

It paints a fairly accurate and hard-hitting picture of the racial tensions of the times, but it still glamorizes the gangsters with too much love.

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Fred Topel About.com Oct 20, 2005 5/5

Beautiful story

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Caffeinated Clint Film Threat Jun 12, 2005

De Niro proves to be just as much a force behind the camera as he does in front of it. A superb debut - a gripping movie.

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Thomas Delapa Boulder Weekly Feb 10, 2005 3/5

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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jan 29, 2005 3/5

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