Goodfellas (1990)
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Reviews Counted:54
Fresh:52
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 28 mins
Genre: Dramas
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... [More]
Starring: Ray Liotta, Lorraine Bracco, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci
Director: Martin Scorsese
Reviews for Goodfellas
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 5/5 |
Arguably Scorsese's finest hour. Full Review |
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Scorsese's fast, violent, stylish mobster movie is a return to form. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Goodfellas is a tour de force that brilliantly evokes both the seductive glamour and moral degradation of organised crime. Full Review |
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You walk away, tantalized by a view into the darkest part of yourself, glad that that part is still behind bars. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Arguably the greatest mob movie ever made.
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A- |
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. Full Review |
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Colorful but dramatically unsatisfying. Full Review |
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May well be the most accomplished thing Scorsese's ever done. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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94/100 |
...one of the best-- and most influential -- American movies ever made. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
A drama that injects your adrenal glands with the thrill of living from score to score and walking the streets with limitless power. Full Review |
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9/10 |
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.
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95/100 |
The iridescence of, and questions asked by Goodfellas place the film among the great American classics. Full Review |
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10/10 |
The best gangster movie of all-time and easily, one of the best overall flicks ever. Full Review |
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B |
A work of craftsmanship over art. Full Review |
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5/5 |
It was so well made that it still works today.
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A+ |
the film that Scorsese was born to make, and will be forever cited among Oscar's most glaring omissions Full Review |
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Brutal, stylish, hypnotic and addictive, GoodFellas remains Scorsese's best film. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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