Not in the same league as the same director's magisterial Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York is nonetheless quite some achievement, ripping apart the rose-tinted mythology of America's history and reassembling it as a morass of sectarian violence out of which, as if by miracle, democracy will grow. It has Daniel Day Lewis in typically supreme form and Leonardo DiCaprio matching him every step of the way in the acting stakes. Three hours near enough - time well spent. 8/10.
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