Poor ol’ Marty. Epic, grandiose, visceral film after film. And what thanks does he get? “Yeah... but it’s not as good as GoodFellas."
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01/25/10
Casino (1995)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:46
Rotten:11
Average Rating:7.2/10
Synopsis: Martin Scorsese, one of America's most influential filmmakers, returns to the world of mobsters, greed, and excess that he explored so compellingly in 1990's GOODFELLAS. Set in the 1970s and... [More]
Starring: Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, James Woods
Director: Martin Scorsese
Reviews for Casino
[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.
01/25/10
Casino is superbly acted and quite astonishingly obsessive about detail, money, and the mob's decline.
01/25/10
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.
01/25/10
An accomplished film that carries with it the unshakable feeling that we've seen it all before.
01/25/10
Simultaneously quite watchable and passionless.
01/25/10
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.
09/01/09
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.
05/16/08
Top CriticIt'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.
03/31/08
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.
08/13/07
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.
01/26/07
Scorsese may be flailing here, but Scorsese flailing is more formidable than most directors at the top of their form.
08/09/06
Top CriticCasino reminds you in too many ways of the brilliance of GoodFellas, and in a way that dooms Casino to remain in its shadow.
06/24/06
The result, sadly, is that contradiction in terms, a dull Scorsese movie.
02/09/06
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.
01/23/06
Garish, rhythmic and intoxicating.
07/12/05
It may not be Scorsese's greatest work, but this guy feeling a little off-colour is still far, far better than most people on fighting-fit form. It only gets more impressive as times goes on.
07/06/05
Top CriticScorsese and Pileggi might be traveling over similar ground here, but they do it so well and so entertainingly, I doubt that any of their fans will really mind.
06/12/05
No review available.
11/18/04
No review available.
10/02/04
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