GoodFellas Reviews

In GoodFellas, director Martin Scorsese does something simple and audacious: He takes the guilt out of organized crime.

Full Review | Original Score: B

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...

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Goodfellas and The Godfather saga tower above their competition and deserve their place in the pantheon of American crime pictures.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

Arguably Scorsese's finest hour.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

You walk away, tantalized by a view into the darkest part of yourself, glad that that part is still behind bars.

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Arguably the greatest mob movie ever made.

| Original Score: 5/5

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 | Original Score: A-

May well be the most accomplished thing Scorsese's ever done.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 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 | Original Score: 4.5/5

...one of the best-- and most influential -- American movies ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 94/100

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 | Original Score: 3.5/4

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 | Original Score: 4/4

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.

| Original Score: 9/10

Scorsese's fast, violent, stylish mobster movie is a return to form.

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The iridescence of, and questions asked by Goodfellas place the film among the great American classics.

Full Review | Original Score: 95/100

The best gangster movie of all-time and easily, one of the best overall flicks ever.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

A work of craftsmanship over art.

Full Review | Original Score: B

It was so well made that it still works today.

| Original Score: 5/5

Brutally funny, and often just plain brutal.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5