Fresh
Sergio Leone's languid, lovely and lengthy ode to Lower East Side mobsters (more specifically, mobster films) ...
David Fear, Time Out New York
Once Upon a Time in America
Crime, passion and lust for power.
1984 · 3h 49m · R
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Sergio Leone
Overview
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Director and cast
- Sergio Leone Director
- Robert De Niro as David 'Noodles' Aaronson
- James Woods as Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz
- Elizabeth McGovern as Deborah Gelly
- Treat Williams as James Conway O'Donnell
- Tuesday Weld as Carol
- Joe Pesci as Frankie Monaldi
- Burt Young as Joe
- James Hayden as Patrick 'Patsy' Goldberg
- William Forsythe as Philip 'Cockeye' Stein
- Larry Rapp Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Leone is less interested in arousing an audience's easier emotions than in presenting, at a dispassionate distance, the horror of two men warily walking toward each other on a tightrope suspended above the snake pit of their , deepest compulsions.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Fresh
Every gesture is immediate, and every gesture seems eternal.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
A disappointment of considerable proportions.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
There are times when we don't understand exactly what is happening, but never a time when we don't feel confidence in the film's narrative.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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