GoodFellas

Movie • 1990

8.7

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    The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

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Roger Ebert

Most films, even great ones, evaporate like mist once you've returned to the real world; not this film, which shows America's finest filmmaker at the peak of his form.

rogerebert.com/reviews/goodfellas-1990

Rotten Tomatoes

Goodfellas becomes a truly great film.

rottentomatoes.com/m/1032176-goodfellas

The Hollywood Reporter

Complex, volatile, ironic and disquieting, Scorsese's Goodfellas is a masterly achievement in intense observation.

hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/goodfellas-review-1990-movie-1041331/

Variety

Scorsese’s intent here, to show how a life of brutal crime could look compelling to an Irish-Italian kid whose sordid upbringing hasn’t prepared him for anything better, is undercut by the offputting, opaque characterization of Ray Liotta.

variety.com/1990/film/reviews/goodfellas-1200428575/

The New Yorker

Is it a great movie? I don’t think so. But it’s a triumphant piece of filmmaking—journalism presented with the brio of drama.

newyorker.com/magazine/1990/09/24/goodfellas-review-pauline-kael

The Guardian

Goodfellas barrels along with unstoppable storytelling relish, its jukebox slams of pop music repeatedly convulsing the movie with sugar-rush excitement amounting almost to hysteria.

theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/19/goodfellas-review-martin-scorsese-robert-de-niro-joe-pesci-ray-liotta

IMDb

"GoodFellas" may be the most important film of the 1990s in the fact that its incredible success led to some of the other great movies of the decade.

imdb.com/title/tt0099685/

Rotten Tomatoes

Goodfellas excels in detailing the protagonist's journey within the mob, with narration that enriches rather than detracts.

rottentomatoes.com/m/1032176-goodfellas/reviews

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