Mean Streets

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Scorsese does like his acting intense.  The relative ordinariness of the conflict--things are plenty intense, gritty, and dark, but it doesn't feel as if we're on the edge of some kind of emotional apocalypse, as it does in Raging Bull and Taxi Driver--makes me like this movie more than the latter two, even if that sense of emotional apocalypse is what makes them distinctive.