The movie works as botha reminder and a regenration of everything that's great in Scorcese's work. It's his own kind of masterpeice and possibly an American classic.

(Texte paru en 1990)

Hollywood has long been fascinated with the gangster. But nobody has ever taken quite the fix on the tribal rites and ethos of the American gangster that Martin Scorcese does in GOODFELLAS.

(Texte paru en 1990)

Mr. Scorcese and Mr. Pileggi can't quite get the entire book onto the screen, but the succeed in preserving a remarkable number of the details.

(Texte paru en 1990)

Scorcese has brought off the rare feat of making a genuinely amoral film.

(Texte paru en 1990)

GOODFELLAS is a true hybrid, a movie with the packed factual interest of a documentary but also the excitement of pace, humor, and violence that only a great fiction director can provide.

(Texte paru en 1990)

Surtout, Scorcese joue merveilleusement bien avec les ruptures de ton. L'humour, bouffe ou noir, étincelant dès la séquence pré-générique, est irrésistible. Et soudain la violence la plus paroxystique, absurde, sanglante fait irruption et nous laisse pantelants (...).

(Texte paru en 1990)