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Goodfellas

1990

Martin Scorsese

Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco ...

8.4

114,606

Thriller. Drama As a poor Irish-Italian growing up in 1950s New York City, Henry Hill rises through the ranks of his Brooklyn neighborhood's crime branch, and with money from the mob he begins living the good life, complete with a beautiful bride, a fancy home, and the best seats at the most exclusive restaurants. A botched robbery lands Henry in prison for a brief period of time, and when he gets released, his reckless infidelities and drug abuse ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"An American crime classic (...) Scorsese's GoodFellas makes poetic drama of warped ambitions. It's a prodigious achievement"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"No finer film has ever been made about organized crime - not even 'The Godfather' (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"In terms of narrative fluidity it may well be the most accomplished thing Scorsese's ever done (...) Stylistically, it's a remarkable effort"	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"Is it a great movie? I don't think so. But it's a triumphant piece of filmmaking"	POS
United States	Variety	"Simultaneously fascinating and repellent, Goodfellas is Martin Scorsese's colorful but dramatically unsatisfying inside look at Mafia life in New York City"	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"A great auteur's masterpiece"	POS
United Kingdom	Adam Smith Empire	"Vintage Scorsese. Hard, fast and brutal (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'Goodfellas' is both the most politically serious and most evilly entertaining movie yet made about organized crime."	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Huddleston Time Out	"A film of perfect moments (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"One remains detached from the characters, but Scorsese succeeds in smashing all the foolishly romantic myths about the mob with this shocking, vigorously honest portrait"	POS

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