Heavy Traffic 1973

Roger Greenspun, New York Times: A cruel, funny, heartbreaking love note to a city kept alive by its freaks, and always, always dying. Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: Bakshi manages to offend nearly everyone from transvestites to mafiosi; but the comic distancing achieved by his army of animators manages to bring off a most difficult kind of humor: the humor of pain and despair. Read more

Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine: Heavy Traffic not only has an authentic tenement toughness but the rough feeling of unassimilated autobiography, of experiences and fantasies still keenly felt. Read more

Time Out: The quality of the animation is cornflake packet standard, the script -- one or two minor moments excepted -- a disaster. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: There's something to offend everyone in this melange of crudely conceived, amateurishly animated stuff. Read more