Casino (1995)

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 | Comment

Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

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 | Comment

Richard Schickel

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Simultaneously quite watchable and passionless.

January 25, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

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 | Comment

Todd McCarthy

Variety

Top Critic

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 | Comment (1)

David Ansen

Newsweek

Top Critic

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)

Hal Hinson

Washington Post

Top Critic

Overlong and tedious crime drama epic. A kinetic behind-the-scenes look at the Vegas casinos.

April 26, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Violent story of vice and virtue not for kids.

January 1, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Ellen Twadell

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 | 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 | Comment

Film4

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

January 25, 2010 Full Review | 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 | Comment

Rob Nelson

City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

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 | Comment

Rob Gonsalves

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 | Comments (3)

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

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 | Comments (2)

Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

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

February 9, 2006 Full Review | Comments (3)

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

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)

Chuck O'Leary

Fantastica Daily

Garish, rhythmic and intoxicating.

July 12, 2005 Full Review | Comment

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

• 1. Lester Diamond: Can you feel my eyes on you? Can you feel me look into your heart? Can you feel me in the pit of your stomach? Can you feel me in you? In your heart?
  – Submitted by Lhgn J (16 days ago)
• 1. Nicky Santoro: [Nicky gets banned from every casino in Las Vegas] Is there anyway around this?
  2. Sam (Ace) Rothstein: Nope, there's no way.
  3. Nicky Santoro: Let's just say, I wanna go into a restaurant which happens to be a casino to get one of those sandwiches that I like.
  4. Sam (Ace) Rothstein: Forget it. You can't even set foot in the parking lot. That's how serious this it.
  – Submitted by Aaron K (18 days ago)
• 1. Wiseguy Eddy: Oh, Nicky, I thought you was layin it...
  2. Nicky Santoro: No, I'm takin it.
  3. Wiseguy Eddy: Are you sure?
  4. Nicky Santoro: I'm positive.
  5. Wiseguy Eddy: Well I'm a little confused.
  6. Nicky Santoro: Maybe if I stick your head through that window over there you will get unconfused, now give me the fuckin money...You had it ready for me, thought I was fuckin layin it?
  – Submitted by Matt M (2 months ago)
• 1. Nicky Santoro: You shit- kicking, stinky, horse-manure-smellin' motherfucker you.
  – Submitted by John D (6 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 (10 months ago)