Pulsing with an energy and life, it's a breathtaking triumph that captures the gaze and mind from the very first scene. Like a fever dream, scenes shift to and fro, tidal like, flitting between the neon signs of night to the shimmering heat wave days.
Travis is a fascinating character, his mannerisms and speech detached from most others, as if plucked from another world and dropped into the throbbing mess of New York he grows to despise.
The sleaze of the night scenes clings to the skin without ever feeling like a cheap, exploitation flick, it is a deliberate and pronounced grime that shows instead of tells - we absorb the imagery and understand more of how Travis sees the world without a word often having to be said"
- 9/10
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