A Look Back At Goodfellas

Goodfellas — Warner Bros.(1990). Image permitted under Fair Use exception for movie reviews.

So much ink has been spilled over Goodfellas (promoted as GoodFellas) in the last several decades that it’s seemingly impossible to offer a new perspective. It still graces the top of numerous critics’ top 10, top 5, and other lists, and has been called the high point of Martin Scorsese’s illustrious career.

Ten years after its release in 2000 it was added to the Library of Congress. The real-life protagonist Henry…