"Hey, better here than, uh, up there, y'know what I mean?"

Rating: 10/10 (23 February 2000)

Casino shows that GoodFellas, the milieu if not the overall tenor as this is more of a full-blown epic in Las Vegas can still be well done when people like Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi do it right.
For a long time this was among the top, top favorites from this director. I don't know if it's still one of THE bestest of the best, but it's still massively enjoyable and after all these years there's still things to love about it. And, actually, though he got the Oscar for Goodfellas, Pesci might actually be *better* here, more nuanced, crazier, more on-fire, more F-bombs. So much underrated material here.
And who doesn't dig James Woods as a pimp and Don Rickles as a casino manager?