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Casino (1995)

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 60
Fresh: 48 | Rotten: 12

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 16
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The inner-workings of a corrupt Las Vegas casino are exposed in Martin Scorsese's story of crime and punishment. The film chronicles the lives and times of three characters: "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro), a bookmaking wizard; Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a Mafia underboss and longtime best friend to Ace; and Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone, in a role she was born to play), a leggy ex-prostitute with a fondness for jewelry and a penchant for playing the field. Ace plays by the rules (albeit Vegas

R, 3 hr. 2 min.

Drama

Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi

Feb 24, 1998

Universal Pictures

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All Critics (60) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (52) | Rotten (12) | DVD (37)

[Stone] seems to be trying to enter a more passionate movie, where a neurotic gold digger could at least have a good time. By the end of Casino, for all its craftsmanly bravura, you may want to join her.

January 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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So long as Casino stays focused on the excesses -- of language, of violence, of ambition -- in the life-styles of the rich and infamous, it remains a smart, knowing, if often repetitive, spectacle.

January 25, 2010 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
TIME Magazine
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Simultaneously quite watchable and passionless.

January 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment (1)
Chicago Reader
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Martin Scorsese's intimate epic about money, sex and brute force is a grandly conceived study of what happens to goodfellas from the mean streets when they outstrip their wildest dreams and achieve the pinnacle of wealth and power.

May 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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It's not the actors' fault that no one is able to break through the film's gorgeous but chilly surface. You watch Casino with respect and appreciation, reveling in its documentary sense of detail.

March 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Newsweek | Comment (1)
Newsweek
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Scorsese may be flailing here, but Scorsese flailing is more formidable than most directors at the top of their form.

August 9, 2006 Comments (3)
Washington Post
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Overlong and tedious crime drama epic. A kinetic behind-the-scenes look at the Vegas casinos.

April 26, 2011 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment (1)
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Violent story of vice and virtue not for kids.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Poor ol' Marty. Epic, grandiose, visceral film after film. And what thanks does he get? "Yeah... but it's not as good as GoodFellas."

January 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comments (4)
Total Film

Casino is superbly acted and quite astonishingly obsessive about detail, money, and the mob's decline.

January 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

An accomplished film that carries with it the unshakable feeling that we've seen it all before.

January 25, 2010 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

To understand that Scorsese suffers for his art, it isn't important to know that he's been married four times, or that he considered joining the Catholic priesthood before choosing the equally masochistic experience of NYU.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul | Comment

People talk and talk about how Vegas works, and Scorsese's camera sprints to keep up. He's like an energetic tour guide making sure we understand everything.

August 13, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Production values are brilliant, and as the drug-addict-hooker Sharon Stone gives her best performance, but thematically, Scorsese rehashes grounds that he had explored deeper in previous films (GoodFellas) and his approach here is too cold and remote.

January 26, 2007 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comments (3)

Casino reminds you in too many ways of the brilliance of GoodFellas, and in a way that dooms Casino to remain in its shadow.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comments (2)
Austin Chronicle

The result, sadly, is that contradiction in terms, a dull Scorsese movie.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comments (2)

Martin Scorsese's Casino is an absolutely brilliant film that's an enthralling equal to his masterful GoodFellas. Demands to be seen at least twice.

January 23, 2006 Comment (1)
Fantastica Daily

Garish, rhythmic and intoxicating.

July 12, 2005 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid
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Audience Reviews for Casino

A great film but not quite the masterpiece that Goodfellas was. Does feature a great soundtrack and a fantastic performance from Joe Pesci.

October 28, 2011
Graham Jones

Super Reviewer

One of the most incredibly and well made films ever. Definently one of Scorseses best, I loved every minute of this movie, so intense and awesome. It truly has a masterpiece of a story, it go behind organized crime in Casinos and how it works, and whos involved, but not just that, it has interesting characters and

March 1, 2011
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Brad Wright

Super Reviewer

    1. Nicky Santoro: You shit- kicking, stinky, horse-manure-smellin' motherfucker you.
    – Submitted by John D (3 months ago)
    1. Sam (Ace) Rothstein: [a cowboy has his sock-feet on a table in the casino] [to Sherbert] I don't give a shit who he's connected to. Tell him to take his fuckin' feet off the table. What's he think this is, a goddamn sawdust joint?
    – Submitted by Sam B (7 months ago)
    1. Nicky Santoro: When it looked like they could get twenty-five years to life in prison just for skimming a casino, sick or no fuckin' sick you knew people were going to get clipped.
    – Submitted by rob g (9 months ago)
    1. Nicky Santoro: A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all fuckin' night. Share this quote
    – Submitted by rob g (9 months ago)

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