Reviews of The Age of Innocence 1993

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  • Nick Naney

    ★★★★ Watched by Nick Naney 28 Sep 2019 11

    Funny to think of a bunch of guidos still high off Goodfellas going to see this together and being like “da fuck was Marty thinking?!” but one of them secretly weeps in the bathroom of the pizzeria they hit up later

  • Sean Gilman

    ★★★★★ Rewatched by Sean Gilman 24 Aug 2015 15

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    Rewatch confirms what I've suspected for awhile: this is Martin Scorsese's very best movie . . . poor Newland Archer, always thinking he's the smartest person in the room when in fact he's the dumbest . . . and what rooms, those sweeping tracking shots, rooms cluttered with objects, the conspicuous wealth of the 1870s, generated on the backs of the wholly absent poor . . . a world of unimaginable riches and power, so seductive, its occupants entirely unaware…

  • fran hoepfner

    ★★★★½ Watched by fran hoepfner 18 Jun 2018

    I docked a half star for this movie not being able to predict how nicely Daniel Day-Lewis would age

  • Muriel

    ★★★★★ Watched by Muriel 16 Apr 2020 4

    martin scorsese here are my keys go fuck my wife‬

  • Roberto_

    ★★★★ Watched by Roberto_ 13 Sep 2020 3

    martin scorsese getting mainly known for his gangster movies and then directing daniel day-lewis in a period romance adaptation about a man who cries at plays and takes comfort in his monthly shipment of books... THE RANGE

  • SilentDawn

    ★★★★★ Rewatched by SilentDawn 18 Jul 2018 5

    98

    Stages of entrapment - Newland Archer only feels "free" when he recognizes the sweltering societal prison suffocating him, but even though the rules are known, there is no ambition to break them, because that would mean 'breaking the rules.' Archer cannot do that. He has too much to lose. His pampered, rigid place in the system is more important than passion and a fleeting sense of self-satisfaction, conveyed by those half-coveted/half-dreaded quick glances and stares. Scorsese presents what being…

  • Nakul

    ★★★★★ Watched by Nakul 01 Apr 2020

    the most violent scorsese movie

  • KYK

    ★★★★½ Rewatched by KYK 30 Aug 2018 2

    if she turns around i’ll go to her

    we’ve all played that game before

    35mm. Quad Cinema.

  • georgina

    ★★★★ Watched by georgina 16 Mar 2019 2

    Daniel Day Lewis had no business looking THAT hot in the 90s

  • sydney

    ★★★★★ Watched by sydney 02 Aug 2016 6

    quite obviously scorsese's best movie, and i can't help but wonder with a twinge of regret what my life might have been like if i'd watched this hundreds of times instead of goodfellas & casino...

  • Jamelle Bouie

    ★★★★½ Watched by Jamelle Bouie 02 Mar 2022 4

    Much to say about the beautiful sets, gorgeous cinematography and restrained (for Scorsese) camera work. But on this first watch, I am especially struck by how expressive the three leads are within the rigid confines of the Victorian mores they are performing. Lewis’ aching desire, Pfeiffer’s deep frustration and Ryder’s deceptive innocence are all so clearly conveyed even as they are communicated by the slightest of looks, of glances, of movements. Brilliant work all around.

  • Jake Cole

    ★★★★★ Rewatched by Jake Cole 12 May 2018 1

    A curious mirror image of Taxi Driver, one where the protagonist's unhappiness actually can be blamed on society rather than his own miserable psychosis. Scorsese has a long list of formally sublime works, but even among his own canon the technical force of this film is immense. Every movement runs in direct opposition to the controlled motion of the characters, reflecting the human passions and uncontrollable desires that roil beneath the surface. Dissolves feel like acid burning through flesh, and…

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