Only one stays at the top forever

Rating: Null/10 (5 February 2000)

I won't even go into what is powerfully moving in this epic combination of the styles of Kubrick's 2001 and Vincente Minnelli's shrill melodramas. I'll just say that in his mastery of composition, editing, color, design and above all movement, Martin Scorsese shows here that he has no peer--no peer in the present, and none in the past. For anyone interested in the first revolution in film language since Griffith...rent it.