The film, nonetheless, remains extraordinary...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 25, 2025

Highly regarded but sometimes momentarily forgotten, Casino is still one of Martin Scorsese’s crowning achievements.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 11, 2024

The first half, which details the inner workings of the gambling industry, is compelling, but the human drama that takes over is noticeably lacking.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 9, 2024

Casino is another solid epic for Martin Scorsese but it doesn't feel like it is ever at the same level as his masterpiece works.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 4, 2024

Casino is a film showing a director at the top of his game in the middle of an especially hot streak. If not Scorsese’s strongest effort it is certainly worthy of appreciation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2023

Scorsese spends the first half of the sprawling three-hour epic laying out the entire operation in fascinating detail... and last half watching it all unravel through greed, arrogance, hubris, and the unleashed, monstrous id of Pesci’s blood simple thug..

| Dec 3, 2022

Casino is a funny, brutal, chilling and engrossing film.

| Jul 8, 2022

This soon-to-be classic is well written, well cast and superbly acted.

| May 16, 2022

A misfire in the always interesting career of director Martin Scorsese.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 25, 2022

Something went terribly wrong. Scorsese made an ambitious bid with Casino. But he seems to have been overpowered by his material.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2021

Casino is nothing less than an epic, three hours long, with a cast of hundreds, stuffed with great victory and even greater tragedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 18, 2021

The decadence of both wealth and violence are brought into sharp focus by Scorsese...

| Apr 15, 2021

Without stinting on the viciousness, Scorsese still conveys an element of nostalgia in Casino, although it's less because the movie is convinced by Ace and Nicky's vision of the good old days than it is skepticism over what will eventually replace them.

| Nov 21, 2020

Scorsese's skill at creating brevity out of such a kaleidoscopic canvas commands respect, though there's the nagging sense that he's running through something of a formula.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2019

Casino is, in a sense, Scorsese's Godfather. It has the epic scale, the operatic violence and the cornered protagonist who craves legitimacy...

| Oct 15, 2019

Scorsese's Casino is just another Las Vegas spectacular, as noisy and purposeless and, at three hours, as seemingly eternal as the Kids' inferno at Circus Circus.

| Aug 16, 2018

Casino is Scorsese's 'messy drawer' of a movie; disconnected scenes and stylistic odds and sods... it might be his most idiosyncratic.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 1, 2013

Overlong and tedious crime drama epic. A kinetic behind-the-scenes look at the Vegas casinos.

| Original Score: C | Apr 26, 2011

Violent story of vice and virtue not for kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Poor ol' Marty. Epic, grandiose, visceral film after film. And what thanks does he get? "Yeah... but it's not as good as GoodFellas."

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 25, 2010