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 (62) | Rotten (3) | DVD (38)
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.
One of the best mobster/crime movies of all time. Joe Pesci is phenomenal. Robert De Niro is incredible as always. Everything is meticulously detailed. Incredible movie.
September 21, 2010Super Reviewer
The fascinating tale about the ascension and fall of an ambitious gangster, told in a brutal and realistic way by Martin Scorsese. An all-time classic, perfectly directed and edited, with many memorable moments and a remarkable performance by Joe Pesci, who steals the show.
February 19, 2012Super Reviewer
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