Rolling Stone "...Unmistakably the work of a virtuoso - bold, brutally funny and ferociously alive..." 12/14/1995 p.89-92Sight and Sound "...It serves its theme brilliantly....It constantly dazzles with visual, auditory and thematic stimuli..." 03/01/1996 p.39-40 USA Today "...If you love impassioned cinema, it's the only way to go..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars 11/22/1995 p.1D Variety "...An extraordinary piece of filmmaking....Sharon Stone is simply a revelation here....Technically, CASINO is virtually beyond compare..." 11/20/1995 Los Angeles Times "...Martin Scorsese is a master filmmaker, so skilled in the manipulation of imagery he might be the most proficient of active American directors..." 11/22/1995 p.F1 Chicago Sun-Times "...Fascinating....Scorsese tells his story with the energy and pacing he's famous for, and with a wealth of little details that feel just right..." 11/22/1995 p.41 Premiere "...Scorsese's most complex film, a picture in which every scene is layered with context that reaches far beyond its immediate context..." 06/01/2003 p.101 Uncut "Scorsese here delivers an epic parable about the fall from grace of people who have it all and squander it through their own recklessness..." 09/01/2005 p.144 Uncut Ranked #6 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- "A delirious, visually ravishing, fiendishly intricate epic, it's almost Biblical in places." 01/01/2006 p.84-85 |