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Once Upon a Time in America

Name: Once Upon a Time in America
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1984-05-23
Duration: 139 min

Crime, passion and lust for power.

19842h 19mcritics 8.4/10

Drama Crime

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.

starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci

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Metacritic15 read

“hard to follow at times. Some scenes felt incomplete or lacked context”
JohnnyMauchabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“Some scenes were grotesque and dragged on too long”
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“Towards the end, I was slowly losing interest and it was just getting too long for me.”
MrPajamasabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“it never feels boring to me while the pace is quite elegiac everything else just compels you”
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TMDB3 read

“Stereotypical Sergio Leone film with endless waitings and sight crossings. One of the performances that made Robert de Niro de actor he is and an interesting way of telling a story and the evolution of America during the years of the alcohol prohibition.”
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“**It's an excellent film, which proves the importance of good post-production, and how bad editing can ruin the whole thing.** There are certain films that impress us so much when we see them that we are really surprised when we discover how ignored they were by the great awards. This film is one of them: I was really shocked to find that it wasn't even nominated for an Oscar or a Golden Globe… and I had to read a bit to understand why that happened. The film is perhaps one of the best in ”
Filipe Manuel Netoread it ↗
“Told by way of a really potent (and well scored by Morricone) retrospective, this sits us down and takes us through a forty year period in the life of the now down-at-heel "Noodles" (Robert De Niro) and of the development of the city of New York. The contents of an old briefcase serve as an aide memoire as the retrospective illustrates just how he and three of his childhood friends decided that the gutter was not for them, and that using the "system" to get on was the only way. Prohibition, viol”
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