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1990
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4.5
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4.5
If you kill for a living, you dont want to think what you did here.
Rob's Movie Vault
4.5
While there have been a fair few films focusing on the mob since 1990, few have achieved the same staying power, legacy and adoration as Goodfellas.
4.0
But its hard to shake the feeling that, rather like its characters, Goodfellas lacks heart.
Time Out
4.0
But its hard to shake the feeling that, rather like its characters, Goodfellas lacks heart.
Time Out
5.0
This is the sequence that imprinted me so deeply with the mood of the film.Its not a straightforward narrative passage, and it has little to do with p ..
Rogerebert
4.4
Hes on a career high when he reluctantly agrees to a blind date with Karen.Its hate at first sight.
Ny Daily News
3.0
But in typical Scorsese fashion, there is a downside to this joy ride.
Spirituality And Practice
3.5
Its a sweeping epic depiction of a crime family in action that is both fascinating and violently ugly a work of craftsmanship over art.
Sover
4.0
Certainly, though, its a film full of thrilling entertainment: a juicy, wry and relentless account of a garish way of life.
The Times
5.0
The story of mobster turned informant Henry Hill (Liotta) is told with both dizzying abandon and breathtaking precision.
The Times
5.0
Review Our Score by Alan Jones This unflinching depiction of the attraction and brutal reality of the Mafia lifestyle from Martin Scorsese is a master ..
Radio Times
4.0
It remains to be seen whether crime will pay at the box office, but in the case of GoodFellas, it certainly pays artistically.The engulfing epic of Ma ..
Rolling Stone
5.0
For its swaggering energy, the heart in your throat pacing and for some of the most memorable, most imitated scenes in mafia movie history, this must ..
The Guardian
4.2
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Emanuellevy
5.0
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Q Network
3.5
GoodFellas yearns to be another great Scorsese film.Whats missing is Scorseses humanity.
Ew
5.0
That Martin Scorsese has yet to win an Oscar for best director is shameful enough.
Bbc
4.5
But Scorsese, a rap artist keeping up the heat, doesnt go in for ironic detachment.
New Yorker
5.0
The spectacular visual style masks the banality of what it documents, an approach mirrored in the acting.
Slant Magazine
4.5
The film has it all sex, drugs, rock n roll, and even a little bit of violence but whats most impressive is the manner in which Scorsese has pieced it ..
Bullz-Eye
5.0
Goodfellas is as compelling and absorbing as any crime drama I have ever seen.
ReelViews
4.5
How current audiences will react to a film where violence isnt cartoonish and its characters all lack sympathy is a tough call.
Hollywood Reporter
5.0
But thats what violence should be.After a summer full of violence played for laughs and gore piled upon gore for no reason other than to gross out the ..
Deseret News
5.0
Scorseses rich tapestry is both broader in scope and more detailed than a mere recounting of the events in the trios life of crime.
Movies Tv Guide
4.5
Though it questionably glamorizes the hoodlum lifestyle, its undeniably fun to see, masterfully infusing laugh out loud comedy with graphic violence a ..
5.0
Its the rock n roll counterpoint to the grand operatic tragedy of Francis Ford Coppolas Godfather saga.
Cine Vue
4.0
Goodfellas is a terrifying film because, like much of Scorseses best work, it is about the lives of avuncular psychopaths, and pretty boy Liotta brill ..
Lw Lies
5.0
Miss Bracco is equally good, but so is the role.The movie has been beautifully cast from the leading roles to the bits.
Ny Times
4.5
Goodfellas isnt so much about the events and actions of a mob figure.
5.0
It says something about the quality of a film when its behind the scenes featurettes look more dated every year, while the movie itself remains timele ..
The Dissolve
5.0
Scorseses visual style is dazzling as usual, full of bravado camerawork and snappy editing.
Montreal Film Journal
5.0
So much of Martys masterpiece has been ripped off, co opted and absorbed into mainstream movie grammar that its probably impossible to convey just how ..
Movie Mezzanine
5.0
And that, more than anything else the film does, is what allows Goodfellas to put the lie to the romance of the great American gangster.
Alternate Ending
5.0
Only the tension is left and this flawless cast plays that perfectly.
La Times
5.0
The result is undoubtedly the most realistic appraisal to date of organised crime and how it operates.
Bfi
4.4
Goodmovie A Giddy, Amoral Comedy From Scorsese GoodFellas largely takes place as a giddy, amoral comedy.
Articles Chicago Tribune
5.0
Or at least thats what the movie might want to be about its hard to tell.
Articles Chicago Tribune
5.0
Scorseses barely fictionalized adaptation of Hills memoir captures the charge of being a mobster on New York in the sixties and seventies without glor ..
Stream On Demand At Home
4.5
While Goodfellas certainly shows the highs it doesnt skirt around the dark side as well.
Battleship Pretension
4.5
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Battleship Pretension
4.0
And Scorsese also moves the story along at a dizzying speed, making the movie seem shorter than its nearly 2 1/2 hours.
Articles Orlando Sentinel
3.8
You laugh.You shudder, then when the movie is an hour old, you laugh a lot less.
Articles Baltimore Sun
4.5
Possibly Martin Scorseses best film. Led by the electric performances of Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci, this violent tale of crime, greed a ..
5.0
From its opening scene of shocking brutality through its remaining 150 minutes of electrifying, relentless drama, violence, humor and horror, Martin S ..
Articles Sun Sentinel
4.5
Its probably the manic air and the sense that what were really watching is a black comedy that transmits the most.
Patrick Nabarro
4.5
However you balance the faults and virtues of Goodfellas, one thing is undeniable: It is never boring not for a single frame.
OutWeek
4.5
It gives us some splendiferous pieces, but it leaves it to us to fit them into a thematically coherent puzzle. The effort is pure pleasure.
OutWeek
5.0
If this is a genre that interests you, you may find it worth a look.
The Blus Pot
4.5
Unlike The Godfather, Goodfellas doesnt attempt to teach us lessons through the insular society of the mob.
rachelsreviews.net
5.0
It also doesnt soft pedal the ugliness of its characters endeavors or the consequences of an amoral life.
Seattle Times
4.8
An expert blend of narration, period music, and dynamic tableaux creating an energetic, darkly funny, and unforgettable portrait of life among the Mob ..
About Film
4.5
The dialogue is as wonderful as it is profane. The performances are as down to earth and familiar as they are superlative achievements in screen actin ..
Associated Press
5.0
Warner Bros. GoodFellas (1990) is director Martin Scorseses stylistic masterpiece a follow up film...
Film Site
4.5
When you watch it you feel like youre getting away with something.
Wbur
4.5
The stylistic blast of what is surely the first rock and roll gangster movie revels in the glamour then twists on the brutality of the mob life...
Seanax
1.5
Anti romantic, it nevertheless sweeps us into the allure of mob glamour then slams us with its cost of admission.
Boston Globe
4.5
Its an epic, its powerful, its funny, its tough, its rough and by God is it cool.
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