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Bad Lieutenant

Quite possibly Ferrara's finest hour, with an almost unbearably sincere performance from Keitel.

...wild, ill-disciplined and never less than mesmerising.

...in the bad lieutenant, Keitel has given us one of the great screen performances in recent years.

If I had to choose the most important films of the 1990s, within the top three would probably be Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant.

...is not just unpleasant, he's vile. He's also gone rogue, and Nicolas Cage is just the guy to play him.