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Casino

No one stays at the top forever.

1995 · 2h 59m · R Crime, Drama
Directed by Martin Scorsese

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Overview

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

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All reviews
79%
Tomatometer
Fresh

[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.

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh

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.

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Rotten

Simultaneously quite watchable and passionless.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

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.

Todd McCarthy, Variety
Rotten

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.

David Ansen, Newsweek

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