Example sentences for: goodfellas

How can you use “goodfellas” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Using only the simplest cinematic means, Boorman achieves what Martin Scorsese needed whip-pans and zoom lenses and a cacophonous sound mix to do at the climax of GoodFellas (1990): He gives you the jittery and suffocating sense of the universe closing in.

  • It is not uncommon for the word fuck and its derivatives to appear thirty or forty times in a police movie; in GoodFellas , the count would certainly be well over one hundred.

  • ( GoodFellas was a jaunty laugh-fest for its first two-thirds, but that was just Scorsese's setup for disaster.)

  • Casino blends Raging Bull with GoodFellas and can be interpreted as a wry allegory of Hollywood in the '70s--a time when "guys like us" (i.e.

  • One of four new law-and-crime dramas set in New York, this one--starring NYPD Blue 's David Caruso--wins praise as "a smartly conceived genre piece" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). Writer-producer Nicholas Pileggi ( GoodFellas ) gets credit for the show's verisimilitude.


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