Critics' Pics: Selections from AFI and Sight & Sound
Gangsters never refer to themselves as gangsters. They are made-men, wiseguys, or Goodfellas. 35th anniversary screening.
Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese exposes the fascinating, mysterious, and violent underworld of New York's Mafia families through the life of insider Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) as he rises from smalltime thug to mobster under the guidance of Jimmy Conway (Academy Award-winner Robert De Niro) in this searing, epic crime drama based on the chilling true-life bestseller Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi. [145 min; crime, drama; English, Italian, Hebrew, and Yiddish with English subtitles]
"It is intimately personal, yet so removed as to remain nonjudgmental, and therefore totally trustworthy. We give into it without reservation, because its maker assures us with every shot, every move that he [Scorsese] knows exactly what he’s doing." — Terry Lawson, Dayton Daily News
"The greatest film ever made about the sensual and monetary lure of crime, and the whole perversely brilliant movie comes into focus in a single, staggering shot." — David Denby, New York Magazine/Vulture
"Funny and frightening, unpredictable and provocative, GoodFellas may be the most authentic Mafia picture ever made. The acting is superb, and so natural that no one—least of all De Niro—seems to be performing." — Brian D. Johnson, Maclean's Magazine
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