a "demeaning treatment of women". The DVD release was banned for the same reason 10 years later. Reception Bad Lieutenant has a 77% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 48 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Bad Lieutenant will challenge less desensitized viewers with its depiction of police corruption, but Harvey Keitel's committed performance makes it hard to turn away." Writing in The New York Times, Janet Maslin praised Ferrara's talent for making "gleefully down-and-dirty films", continuing, "He has come up with his own brand of supersleaze, in a film that would seem outrageously, unforgivably lurid if it were not also somehow perfectly sincere." Desson Howe for The Washington Post called the Lieutenant "a notch nicer than Satan", and he cites Keitel's work as the film's saving grace, "It is only the strength of Keitel's performance that gives his personality human dimension." Mark Kermode has mentioned that the film was praised as "a powerful tale of redemptive Catholicism". Roger Ebert gave the film four stars and stated that "in the Bad Lieutenant, Keitel has given us one of the great screen performances in recent years". Martin Scorsese named this movie as the fifth best movie of the 1990s. Followup A narratively unrelated follow-up, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, was released in 2009, seventeen years after the first film's release. The film was directed by Werner Herzog and stars Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes. It was described as being "neither a sequel nor a remake". Both films were produced by Edward R. Pressman. References External links 1992 films 1992 crime drama films 1992 independent films 1990s English-language films 1990s Spanish-language films American crime drama films American independent films American neo-noir films Films about atonement Films about Catholicism Films about cocaine Films about the New York City Police Department Films about police corruption Films about rape Films directed by Abel Ferrara Films scored by Joe Delia Films set in New York City Films shot in New Jersey Films shot in New York City Films about gambling Murder in films Obscenity controversies in film Portrayals of Jesus in film 1990s American films