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Wednesday, 26 March 1997 |  Written by Abbie Bernstein  | 
title: Goodfellas function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Warner Home Video MPAA rating: R starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino release year: 1990 film rating: Five Stars sound/picture: Four Stars reviewed by: Abbie Bernstein Unless something unexpected drops out of the sky between now and Dec. 31, ‘GoodFellas’ will rule forever as the single best film about organized crime to come out of the ‘90s. Indeed, it is one of the best films ever on the subject, making us feel as though we’ve lived through the outrageous events along with the characters. Director Martin Scorsese has explored the themes and characters of ‘GoodFellas’ before and since, but never with such immediacy. He manages to make these people thoroughly understandable without romanticizing them; we get why they are who they are without wanting to be them. It’s a tougher dynamic than it may sound, but Scorsese makes it work so that it hangs in the memory in a manner normally reserved for our ...
Wednesday, 26 March 1997 |  Written by Abbie Bernstein  | 
title: Get Shorty function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: MGM/UA Home Video MPAA rating: R starring: John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito release year: 1995 film rating: Three and a half stars reviewed by: Abbie Bernstein Contrary to semi-popular belief, Get Shorty' isn't all that similar to 'Pulp Fiction.' Yes, both movies star John Travolta as a criminal operating in Los Angeles and both have intricate plotlines, but 'Get Shorty' is much the sunnier and sillier of the two. Of all the recent adaptations of Elmore Leonard novels (i.e. 'Jackie Brown,' 'Out of Sight'), this is the one that least resembles a Quentin Tarantino flick.
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