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Casino (1995)

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Reviews Counted:57

Fresh:46

Rotten:11

Average Rating:7.2/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 59 mins

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $0

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... 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 reveling in the minute details of how Las Vegas casinos operate, the film chronicles the rise and fall of casino manager Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro). As the king of his domain, Ace efficiently runs the business and regularly sends lots of cold cash to his bosses. Helping him keep the casino's employees and customers honest is his best friend, Nicky (Joe Pesci), a violent sociopath. Although Ace aims to run a relatively respectable casino, the volatile Nicky wants to take over the entire gambling mecca, and when Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), a seasoned Vegas hustler, enters the picture, Ace and Nicky's friendship is complicated even further. As drugs and alcohol become a bigger part of Ginger's life, all three are eventually brought down by their own greed and blind ambition. CASINO shares many similarities with GOODFELLAS, beginning with a script that was cowritten by Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi. Regulars De Niro and Pesci are first rate once again as the dissimilar companions, but it is Stone who steals the show with her grueling, intense performance. [More]

Starring: Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, James Woods

Starring: Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King, Kevin Pollak, L.Q. Jones, Dick Smothers, Frankie Avalon, Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Jerry Vale, John Bloom

Director: Martin Scorsese

Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenwriter: Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi

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

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
01/25/10
Total Film

[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.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
01/25/10
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

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

Full Review Source: Film4 | comment Comment
01/25/10
Film4

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.

Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | comment Comment
01/25/10
Richard Schickel
Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine

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

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
01/25/10
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Simultaneously quite watchable and passionless.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/25/10
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

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.

Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul | comment Comment
09/01/09
Rob Nelson
Rob Nelson
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

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.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
05/16/08
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
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.

Full Review Source: Newsweek | comment Comment
03/31/08
David Ansen
David Ansen
Newsweek

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.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
08/13/07
Rob Gonsalves
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.

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment 2 Comments
01/26/07
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Scorsese may be flailing here, but Scorsese flailing is more formidable than most directors at the top of their form.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment 1 Comment
08/09/06
Hal Hinson
Hal Hinson
Washington Post
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Casino reminds you in too many ways of the brilliance of GoodFellas, and in a way that dooms Casino to remain in its shadow.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment 1 Comment
06/24/06
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

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

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
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.

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01/23/06
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

Garish, rhythmic and intoxicating.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
07/12/05
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

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.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
07/06/05
Philip Thomas
Philip Thomas
Empire Magazine
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Scorsese 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.

Full Review Source: DVD Clinic | comment Comment
06/12/05
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
DVD Clinic

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11/18/04
Matt Bailey
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10/02/04
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
 
 
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