Scorsese's fast, violent, stylish mobster movie is a return to form.
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02/09/06
Goodfellas (1990)
96 %
Reviews Counted: 51 Fresh: 49 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 8.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 28 mins
Synopsis: Based on Nicholas Pileggi's book WISEGUY, Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS is a wry, violent, and exhilarating film about the life of Henry Hill, an aspiring criminal who ends up in the FBI's witness protection program after testifying against his former partners. As a poor Irish-Italian... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Ray Liotta, Lorraine Bracco, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Paul Sorvino
Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenwriter: Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi
Story: Nicholas Pileggi
Producer: Irwin Winkler
Screenwriter: Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi
Story: Nicholas Pileggi
Producer: Irwin Winkler
Reviews
Top Critic
Goodfellas is a tour de force that brilliantly evokes both the seductive glamour and moral degradation of organised crime.
04/17/01
Top Critic
Based on Pileggi's book, Scorsese's biopic of Henry Hill is so well-crafted, shot, and acted that it easily overcomes some of the film's shortcomings, such as its dramatic shaplessness and less than powerful ending.
02/21/08
Top Critic
A multi-generational tale of bad money, it is the defining American movie of the 1990s; Scorsese hasn’t made a film half as good since its 1990 release.
10/04/06
...one of the best-- and most influential -- American movies ever made.
10/04/06
Long and brutal, but Scorsese was never better at marshalling his cinematic tools to tell a story ... his definitive statement about the New York City mob.
08/21/06
A drama that injects your adrenal glands with the thrill of living from score to score and walking the streets with limitless power.
06/02/06
That Martin Scorsese's brilliant GoodFellas lost the 1990 Best Picture and Best Director Oscars to Dances with Wolves is one of the all-time miscarriages of justice in the history of the Academy Awards.
02/18/06
The iridescence of, and questions asked by Goodfellas place the film among the great American classics.
05/13/05
The best gangster movie of all-time and easily, one of the best overall flicks ever.
02/07/05
the film that Scorsese was born to make, and will be forever cited among Oscar's most glaring omissions
09/04/04
Brutal, stylish, hypnotic and addictive, GoodFellas remains Scorsese's best film.
09/02/04
Top Critic
Proves that not even crooks can do whatever they want-everybody is accountable.
08/30/04
Goodfellas and The Godfather saga tower above their competition and deserve their place in the pantheon of American crime pictures.
08/05/04
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