Dear Silent Dawn/All of Letterboxd.

I deeply apologize for not seeing this film until today even though I'm only seventeen. I should have seen this when I was first born. I need to stop making excuses. This movie is as good as you've heard and maybe even better. I love Gangster stories and movies like this, so how have I not seen this until now? The fuck is wrong with me?

Everyone is fucking brilliant. Holy shit, so much great acting across the board. With fantastic dialogue as well. Each frame is perfectly placed for the scene and every scene has a meaning towards forwarding the story and characters.

Fuck, I want to have sex with this movie's soundtrack. I…

100/100

Had to give the "new" Blu-ray (from a 4K scan!) a spin, and it's as impossibly gorgeous as can be, enriching the murky, glorified details and cranking all the exhilaration and eventual paranoia up to 11. Even though I've seen this around 20-30 times at this point, I still get dizzy from all the detail; an entire world built up and thriving through soda pop nostalgia and the eventual nervousness of violence. Scorsese's attuned style commits fully to every aspect of the production, but it is in the strange, banal moments where his genius fully shines. Although it may be glorification in terms of technique, Goodfellas never romanticizes its band of characters or its almost Herculean setting, instead exposing…

I decided to give Scorcese's film another go and while I still appreciate the skill involved I just cannot get myself to like this film.

The problem is that in a film full of antagonists the audience always loses. This film doesn't make me care for a single character and that completely takes me out of it. It turns me from a spectator into a passerby.

The story arch is fine and it is told with Scorcese's usual skill. Most performances are excellent and engaging, but I just keep coming back to the fact that I need a protagonists I can root for in a story like this. Our supposed hero, the way he's written, is simply not a character…

A MASTERPIECE EXPOSING MISGUIDED LOYALTIES AND GREED, SHOWING THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE MAFIA REALISTICALLY AND COMPREHENSIBLE; WITH ONLY ONE WORD: PERFECTION, ONE WORD PERFECTION

Hi everybody, since Scorsese's next gangster epic "The Irishman" will soon be available on Netflix and is now for a short time in selected theaters (and I'm more than excited seeing all these positive critique right no), it's time to take a closer look on Scorsese's brilliantly witty rise-and-fall tale of high-class, exclusive gangsters (including massive Spoilers if you're not familiar with the real happenings around Henry Hill and the Lucchese crime family), that could be considered as his best work to date. As someone who can't get enough of good gangster movies, the crime…