Average Rating: 8.8/10
Reviews Counted: 58
Fresh: 56 | Rotten: 2
Hard-hitting and stylish, GoodFellas is a gangster classic -- and arguably the high point of Martin Scorsese's career.
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 1
Hard-hitting and stylish, GoodFellas is a gangster classic -- and arguably the high point of Martin Scorsese's career.
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Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. Set to a true-to-period rock soundtrack, the story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian New York kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" in his impoverished Brooklyn neighborhood. He begins hanging around the mobsters, running errands and doing odd jobs until he gains the
Sep 19, 1990 Wide
Mar 26, 1997
Warner Bros.
All Critics (58) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (3) | DVD (37)
In GoodFellas, director Martin Scorsese does something simple and audacious: He takes the guilt out of organized crime.
You walk away, tantalized by a view into the darkest part of yourself, glad that that part is still behind bars.
Colorful but dramatically unsatisfying.
May well be the most accomplished thing Scorsese's ever done.
Brutal, stylish, hypnotic and addictive, GoodFellas remains Scorsese's best film.
Goodfellas looks and sounds as if it must be absolutely authentic.
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...
...what could have been a run-of-the-mill gangster story becomes one of legend. (20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Book)
Goodfellas and The Godfather saga tower above their competition and deserve their place in the pantheon of American crime pictures.
Masterful but brutal gangster tale is not for kids.
Arguably Scorsese's finest hour.
Arguably the greatest mob movie ever made.
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.
It's not only the greatest gangster film ever made, but it's also one of the most glaring omissions in the history of the Oscars.
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.
...one of the best-- and most influential -- American movies ever made.
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.
A drama that injects your adrenal glands with the thrill of living from score to score and walking the streets with limitless power.
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.
Scorsese's fast, violent, stylish mobster movie is a return to form.
The iridescence of, and questions asked by Goodfellas place the film among the great American classics.
Exquisitely cast and masterfully shot, the film has no great metaphorical spine like The Godfather, but it is otherwise an enduring and captivating tale.
For many, this is the best film ever made and it certainly ranks as one of director Martin Scorsese's finest moments. Personally, "Raging Bull" would be my favourite but there's no denying the abundant brilliance throughout this. Scorsese is on comfortable ground here and it shows. Based on the real life story of Henry
December 13, 2011Super Reviewer
This movie throws your BALLS TO THE WALL. then it makes you apologize to the wall, when it knows very well that you didnt throw yourself into the wall, and this pisses you off even more because you have popped-open, bleeding balls, and then it pisses on the wall and tells the wall it will kill its children if it tells
May 13, 2008Super Reviewer
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