Gets better each time I see it

Rating: Null/10 (13 February 1999)

I've seen this film, in its entirety, three times, and it keeps getting better. The first time I saw it it seemed tired and "done-before", like a rehash of "GoodFellas" and "Scarface", but now I think it's one of Scorsese's best. In fact, it takes suggested ideas from those two films, and others ("The King of Comedy", "Vertigo", etc.), and expands them, explores them, and gives us an entirely new perspective. I always appreciate a director who gives us things we haven't seen before, or at the very least, gives us a new way of looking at things we have seen before.