Welcome to New York
IFC Films | Release Date: March 27, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
CineVueCraig WilliamsAug 6, 2014
Ferrara's Welcome to New York is a savage work that's easily one of the best films of the year. [Unrated Version] Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperApr 23, 2015
In Abel Ferrara’s lurid, sometimes grotesque, train-wreck-watchable Welcome to New York, Depardieu almost literally fills the screen as an enormous bear of a man with insatiable appetites for money, sex and power. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineChuck BowenMar 22, 2015
The film's peculiarly exhilarating effect can be attributed to a sense of social outrage that's transcended for the sake of metaphoric social clarity. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyMar 25, 2015
This is a film set entirely in places where people aren’t meant to stay for very long, a world of continual transit and gratification, with no endpoint. Maybe it’s the world that money creates for itself. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid HughesApr 16, 2015
Recalling Harvey Keitel’s tortured cop in Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant, Devereaux is an unreconstructed, unrepentant monster with no hope of, or interest in, redemption. It’s a fearless, heroic performance in a provocative, important film. [Unrated Version] Read full review
80
Time Out LondonTrevor JohnstonApr 16, 2015
Not just a cheeky stunt, Ferrara’s film is a genuine, worthwhile, thoughtfully unresolved attempt to understand the deepest, darkest mysteries of manhood and power. Read full review
80
Total FilmJamie GrahamApr 16, 2015
As a portrait of a privileged, narcissistic sex addict, its magnificence and messiness are intertwined, while Gérard Depardieu’s (literally) naked performance offers a gurning, grunting bedfellow to Keitel’s Bad Lieutenant and Brando’s butterfat Last Tango In Paris protagonist. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinApr 16, 2015
This frank, unruly look at sex, privilege and power unfolds so much like real life that it proves an intriguing and strangely immersive experience. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'HehirMar 26, 2015
Lurid but compelling. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 21, 2014
Welcome to New York proves thoroughly engrossing. Here is a work of ragged glory; dirty and galvanic. [Unrated Version] Read full review
80
VarietyScott FoundasMay 12, 2014
A bluntly powerful provocation that begins as a kind of tabloid melodrama and gradually evolves into a fraught study of addiction, narcissism and the lava flow of capitalist privilege. [Unrated Version] Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsApr 23, 2015
The film, a sleek and oddly moving study in the cost of debauchery, has its gleeful excesses. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezApr 9, 2015
In the movie’s best scene, Bisset lays into Depardieu with the rage and anger of a woman who has tolerated bad behavior for too long (there’s a fiery spontaneity to their verbal sparring that makes you wonder if the scene was improvised). Read full review
75
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthAug 1, 2014
[A] fascinating depiction of another kind of wolf of Wall Street, one whose endless hunger is only matched by his vile soullessness. [Unrated Version] Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnMay 19, 2014
No matter its silliest missteps, Welcome to New York has an impressive engine of ideas in line with the director's other New York stories. [Unrated Version] Read full review
70
Village VoiceZachary WigonApr 15, 2015
Surprisingly -- and pleasantly -- restrained in its delivery, Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York is the sort of picture that withholds judgment of its protagonist so that viewers have space to make their own. Read full review
70
The DissolveScott TobiasMar 24, 2015
With Depardieu’s intensely physical performance at its core, Welcome To New York achieves a level of intimacy that’s rare for films about public figures—and, in this case, exposes Strauss-Kahn for all to see. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerMay 12, 2014
It’s a rather fascinating bit of artistic self-indulgence that’s both made by, and about, self-indulgent men, although one that can certainly grow taxing. [Unrated Version] Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriApr 4, 2015
This is not the kind of material for a stately biopic or a political drama. This is nasty, strange business — perfect for Ferrara, whose work often hovers between art and exploitation, between angst and sleaze. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyChristian HolubApr 16, 2015
The film, which sparked enough controversy that French theaters refused to pick it up, spends too much time bogged down in its more decadent scenes to spark any new insights. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyMay 21, 2014
It's bad enough that the film has such minimal interest in his victim – after two scenes doing the film's best acting, Afesi is out of the picture. But as portraiture, Welcome to New York flops too, despite Dépardieu's considerable efforts. [Unrated Version] Read full review
38
New York PostKyle SmithMar 26, 2015
Grunting and boarlike, Gérard Depardieu supplies a one-note rendition of Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Abel Ferrara’s peculiarly unilluminating Welcome to New York. Read full review
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