Editing Raging Bull (section)

=== Critical response ===
When it premiered in New York City on November 14, 1980, the release of ''Raging Bull'' was met with polarized reviews, but the film would receive widespread critical acclaim, and is widely regarded as one of Scorsese's best works.<ref name="Biskind p399">Biskind, Peter ''Easy Riders, Raging Bulls'' 1999, p.399.</ref><ref name="Baxter p90" />

On the  [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 92% based on 151 reviews, with an average rating of 9.00/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Arguably Martin Scorsese's and Robert De Niro's finest film, ''Raging Bull'' is often painful to watch, but it's a searing, powerful work about an unsympathetic hero."<ref>{{cite web |title=''Raging Bull'' Movie Reviews, Pictures |url=https://rottentomatoes.com/m/raging_bull/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101013080614/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/raging_bull/ |archive-date=October 13, 2010 |access-date=April 11, 2025 |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref> [[Metacritic]], which assigns a weighted average, gave it a score of 90 out of 100, based on 28 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/raging-bull |title=''Raging Bull'' Movie Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=April 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218180746/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/raging-bull |archive-date=December 18, 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "A" on a scale of A+ to F.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 20, 1981 |title=CinemaScore |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lD8jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TYMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1272%2C5527134 |access-date=April 12, 2025 |work=[[Deseret News]] |location=[[Salt Lake City]] |page=2C}}</ref>

[[Jack Kroll]] of ''[[Newsweek]]'' called ''Raging Bull'' the "best movie of the year".<ref name="Biskind p399" />

[[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' said that Scorsese "has made his most ambitious film as well as his finest", and went on to praise Moriarty's debut performance, saying, "Either she is one of the film finds of the decade or Mr. Scorsese is [[Svengali]]. Perhaps both."<ref>{{cite web |last=Canby |first=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby |title=ROBERT DE NIRO IN 'RAGING BULL' (Published 1980) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/11/14/archives/robert-de-niro-in-raging-bull.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=14 November 1980 |access-date=January 9, 2021 |archive-date=January 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128091635/https://www.nytimes.com/1980/11/14/archives/robert-de-niro-in-raging-bull.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Evans pp124-129">Evans, Mike ''The Making of Raging Bull'' pp. 124–129</ref>

''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' praised De Niro's performance because "much of ''Raging Bull'' exists because of the possibilities it offers De Niro to display his own explosive art".<ref name="Evans pp124-129" />

[[Steve Jenkins (author)|Steven Jenkins]] from the [[British Film Institute]]'s (BFI) magazine ''Monthly Film Journal'' said that "''Raging Bull'' may prove to be Scorsese's finest achievement to date".<ref name="Evans pp124-129" />