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Once Upon a Time in America
Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 years later.
22 July 1934, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
1 May 1964, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
1 December 1951, Rowayton, Connecticut, USA
16 March 1927, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
17 June 1935, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
28 June 1937, Brooklyn, New York, USA
5 March 1923, Rome, Lazio, Italy
18 July 1961, Evanston, Illinois, USA
September 29, 2014
While Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America" is not quite the masterpiece that some make it out to be due to its excess, there are still plenty of things to recommend about it.April 22, 2014
Just gasp at the scale, at the immaculate period reconstruction and at that incredible opening with its endlessly ringing phone.April 12, 2011
Leone is less interested in arousing an audience's easier emotions than in presenting, at a dispassionate distance, the horror of two men warily walking toward each other on a tightrope suspended above the snake pit of their , deepest compulsions.September 12, 2008
A disappointment of considerable proportions.November 20, 2012
Sergio Leone's languid, lovely and lengthy ode to Lower East Side mobsters (more specifically, mobster films) ...January 01, 2015
A tale of haunting introspection, unremitting power and potent symbolism. "America" ruminates on the corrosive effects of greed, violence, objectification and pain, and forces us to face despicable acts of a stand-in for our nation's worst impulses.April 12, 2011
Every gesture is immediate, and every gesture seems eternal.April 22, 2014
The film, photographed by Tonino Delli Colli, is striking to look at, especially its New York street scenes, which were shot in Manhattan, Montreal and a back lot near Rome. The acting is stunning.April 11, 2015
Adding 22 minutes only enhances Leone's brilliant saga of guilt and betrayalApril 22, 2014
Sergio Leone explores the seamiest byways of urban Americana through the story of two gangsters who start their partnership as Brooklyn kids in 1921 and tragically end it in the late '60s.