Critical Reception
The film was a critical success, holding a current "Fresh" rating of 96% from Rotten Tomatoes, a 77% score on the IMDB and an average score of 80/100 from Metacritic. Critic Roger Ebert gave the film four stars, calling it "a very funny movie sometimes, and very touching at other times. It is filled with life and colorful characters and great lines of dialogue, and De Niro, in his debut as a director, finds the right notes as he moves from laughter to anger to tears. What's important about the film is that it's about values."
A Bronx Tale was nominated for AFI's Top 10 Gangster Films list.
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