It also may be the best crime film with a Jewish protagonist at its center. But the three-hour epic remains one of Scorsese’s most ambitious and gorgeously realized films. It may be a tick below Goodfellas, which came out just five years earlier, in terms of its reputation in the eyes of film historians. Casino Martin Scorsese’s examination of the mob’s control of Las Vegas in the 1960s and 70s, debuted in theaters on Nov.
