Editing Goodfellas (section)

== Reception ==
=== Box office ===
''Goodfellas'' grossed $6.3&nbsp;million from 1,070 theaters in its opening weekend, topping the box office.<ref>{{cite web |title= 'GoodFellas' Claims No. 1 at Box Office |author= Pat H. Broeske |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-09-24-ca-1086-story.html |website= Los Angeles Times |date= September 24, 1990 |access-date= January 21, 2021 |archive-date= May 9, 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210509015716/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-09-24-ca-1086-story.html |url-status= live }}</ref> In its second weekend, the film made $5.9&nbsp;million from 1,291 theaters, falling just 8% and finishing second behind newcomer ''[[Pacific Heights (film)|Pacific Heights]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title= 'Pacific Heights' Tops Box Office; 'GoodFellas' 2nd : Movies: 'Ghost,' third place in ticket sales, shows no signs of dying. |author= Pat H. Broeske |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-01-vw-1417-story.html |website= Los Angeles Times |date= October 1, 1990 |access-date= January 22, 2021 |archive-date= January 29, 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210129032331/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-01-vw-1417-story.html |url-status= live }}</ref> It went on to make $46.8&nbsp;million domestically.<ref name="Box Office Mojo">{{cite web |title=Goodfellas |url= https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0099685/?ref_=bo_rl_ti |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=December 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218124834/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=goodfellas.htm|archive-date=December 18, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=NUM>{{Cite web |url= https://m.the-numbers.com/movie/Goodfellas |title= Goodfellas (1990) - Financial Information |work= [[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |access-date= January 22, 2021 |archive-date= January 28, 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210128173754/https://m.the-numbers.com/movie/Goodfellas |url-status= live }}</ref>

=== Critical response ===
According to [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], 94% of 166 critics have given the film a positive review, with an average rating of 9.00/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Hard-hitting and stylish, ''GoodFellas'' is a gangster classic—and arguably the high point of Martin Scorsese's career."<ref>{{cite web |title=Goodfellas (1990) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1032176_goodfellas |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817123029/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1032176_goodfellas |archive-date=August 17, 2019 |access-date=April 24, 2025 |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]}}</ref> [[Metacritic]] has assigned the film a [[weighted average]] score of 92 out of 100, based on reviews from 21 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/goodfellas |title=Goodfellas (1990) |website=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |access-date=September 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706220854/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/goodfellas|archive-date=July 6, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of A− on a scale of A+ to F.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cinemascore.com |title=CinemaScore |website=[[CinemaScore]] |access-date=September 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104063502/https://www.cinemascore.com/|archive-date=January 4, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

In his review for the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'', [[Roger Ebert]] gave the film a full four stars and wrote, "No finer film has ever been made about organized crime – not even ''[[The Godfather]]''."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19900902/REVIEWS/9020301 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |title=GoodFellas |date=September 2, 1990 |access-date=October 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111122457/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19900902%2FREVIEWS%2F9020301|archive-date=January 11, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

In his review for the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', [[Gene Siskel]] wrote, "All of the performances are first-rate; Pesci stands out, though, with his seemingly unscripted manner. ''GoodFellas'' is easily one of the year's best films."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/09/21/scorseses-goodfellas-one-of-the-years-best/ |title=Scorsese's 'Goodfellas' One of the Year's Best |last=Siskel |first=Gene |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=September 21, 1990 |access-date=October 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028162829/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-09-21/entertainment/9003190299_1_goodfellas-henry-hill-mob|archive-date=October 28, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Both critics named it the best film of 1990. In his review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Vincent Canby]] wrote, "More than any earlier Scorsese film, ''Goodfellas'' is memorable for the ensemble nature of the performances... The movie has been beautifully cast from the leading roles to the bits. There is flash also in some of Mr. Scorsese's directorial choices, including freeze frames, [[fast cutting]] and the occasional long tracking shot. None of it is superfluous."<ref>{{cite news |last=Canby |first=Vincent |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/19/movies/review-film-a-cold-eyed-look-at-the-mob-s-inner-workings.html|title=A Cold-Eyed Look at the Mob's Inner Workings |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 19, 1990}}</ref>

''[[USA Today]]'' gave the film four stars out of four, and called it, "great cinema—and also a whopping good time".<ref name="Clark" />

[[David Ansen]], in his review for ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine, wrote, "Every crisp minute of this long, teeming movie vibrates with outlaw energy."<ref>{{cite news |last=Ansen |first=David |title=A Hollywood Crime Wave |work=[[Newsweek]] |date=September 17, 1990}}</ref>

[[Rex Reed]] said, "Big, rich, powerful and explosive. One of Scorsese's best films! ''Goodfellas'' is great entertainment."<ref>{{cite news |last=Reed |first=Rex |date=September 24, 1990 |title=Goodfellas |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York Magazine]]}}</ref>

In his review for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', [[Richard Corliss]] wrote, "So it is Scorsese's triumph that ''GoodFellas'' offers the fastest, sharpest 2½-hr. ride in recent film history."<ref name="Corliss">{{cite magazine |last=Corliss |first=Richard |title=Married to the Mob |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=September 24, 1990 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,971220,00.html |access-date=January 29, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220094359/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,971220,00.html|archive-date=February 20, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Lists ===
The film is ranked the best of 1990 by Roger Ebert,<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web |url=http://www.innermind.com/misc/s_e_top.htm |title=Siskel and Ebert Top Ten Lists (1969–1998) |publisher=Innermind.com |date=May 3, 2012 |access-date=August 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426105327/http://www.innermind.com/misc/s_e_top.htm |archive-date=April 26, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> Gene Siskel<ref name=autogenerated1 /> and Peter Travers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/travers.html |title=Peter Travers' Top Ten Lists 1989–2005 |publisher=caltech.edu |access-date=August 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206120135/http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/travers.html |archive-date=February 6, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In a poll of 80 film critics, ''Goodfellas'' was named the best film of the year by 34 critics. Director Martin Scorsese was chosen as the year's best director in 45 of the 80 ballots.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1992/01/12/and-the-winner-is/1fa1a16b-3410-4528-a530-a61cf56ac11e/ |title=AND THE WINNER IS... |date=January 12, 1992 |last1=McGilligan |first1=Pat |last2=Rowl |first2=Mark |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=May 9, 2020 |archive-date=August 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818115322/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1992/01/12/and-the-winner-is/1fa1a16b-3410-4528-a530-a61cf56ac11e/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

''Goodfellas'' is ranked No. 92 on the [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)]] list, published in 2007. In 2012, the [[Motion Picture Editors Guild]] listed ''Goodfellas'' as the fifteenth best-edited film of all time based on a survey of its membership.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The 75 Best Edited Films |journal=Editors Guild Magazine |date=May 2012 |volume=1 |issue=3 |url=https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleID=1102 |access-date=April 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317101140/https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleID=1102 |archive-date=March 17, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> In the [[The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012|2012 Sight & Sound polls]], it was ranked the 48th-greatest film ever made in the directors' poll.<ref name="bfi">{{cite journal |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time |title=The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time |issue=September 2012 |date=August 1, 2012 |journal=[[Sight & Sound]] |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=June 6, 2013 |editor-link=Ian Christie (film scholar) |editor-first=Ian |editor-last=Christie |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301135739/http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time |archive-date=March 1, 2017}}</ref> In the subsequent 2022 polls, it was ranked 28th in the directors' poll and tied for 63rd (with ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' and ''[[The Third Man]]'') in the critics' poll.<ref>{{Cite web |title=GoodFellas (1990) |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/film/b573c997-0970-5531-8f89-b193e2f8b143/goodfellas |access-date=April 25, 2023 |website=BFI |language=en |archive-date=April 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425152702/https://www.bfi.org.uk/film/b573c997-0970-5531-8f89-b193e2f8b143/goodfellas |url-status=live }}</ref>

''Goodfellas'' is 39th on [[James Berardinelli]]'s 2014-made list of the top 100 films of all time.<ref>{{cite web |last=Berardinelli |first=James |url=http://www.reelviews.net/specials/james-berardinelli-s-all-time-top-100 |title=Berardinelli's All Time Top 100 |publisher=Reelviews.net |date=2014 |access-date=April 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410133026/http://www.reelviews.net/specials/james-berardinelli-s-all-time-top-100 |archive-date=April 10, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, [[WhatCulture]] included Joe Pesci's role in top "10 Most Convincing Movie [[Psychopathy|Psychopath]] Performances".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hill |first=Ryan |date=2014-10-13 |title=10 Most Convincing Movie Psychopath Performances |url=https://whatculture.com/film/10-most-convincing-movie-psychopath-performances |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=WhatCulture.com |language=en}}</ref> In 2015, ''Goodfellas'' ranked 20th on [[BBC]]'s "100 Greatest American Films" list, voted on by film critics from around the world.<ref>{{cite web|date=July 20, 2015|title=100 Greatest American Films|url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916105535/http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films|archive-date=September 16, 2016|access-date=July 21, 2015|work=BBC}}</ref> The February 2020 issue of ''[[New York Magazine]]'' lists ''Goodfellas'' as among "The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars."<ref>{{cite news|title=The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars|url=https://www.vulture.com/article/best-oscar-best-picture-losers.html|magazine=[[New York Magazine]]|access-date=March 17, 2025}}</ref>