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  Review by Josh Lewis ★ 24

  I kid you not, this movie opens with a nighttime shot of John Travolta looking out at the Manhattan bridge, turning to face the camera and going "New Yawk, da greatest city in da world." It's amazing, they accidentally made the Walk Hard of gangster movies. Connolly's operating on so many levels of cliché and incompetence it genuinely becomes difficult to tell if this is utter dogshit or galaxy-brain irony. All of the scenes make ~sense~ in the larger vocabulary of gangster movies but there's no work done to dramatize or contextualize them. What crimes do these people even do? This depicts the Gambino family like a country club that kills random people sometimes. Though, to be fair, this aspect…

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  Review by bybowes ★½ 24

  Until I was ten, my dad's main source of income was from bartending, and for several years in that period he worked at a place in Downtown Brooklyn that was a brisk walk from the borough's various courthouses. This is relevant for two reasons: the main one is a prize anecdote starring my dad's friend and coworker Jimmy, wherein during a particularly busy day at the restaurant John Gotti and retinue came in seeking strong drink and a bite to eat, only to be told by Jimmy that there were no tables. "Well *make* a fuckin' table," one of Gotti's companions said. "What do I look like, a fuckin' carpenter?" Jimmy said, looking him dead in the eye. There was…

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  Review by Evan 10

  In 10 years from now will YOU be able to say you saw Gotti in theaters!? Don't miss the opportunity of a lifetime, motherfucker. This is one that needs to be seen to be believed. You haven't actually lived until you've seen Gotti.

  Gotti is a film that cannot be given a star rating. I literally cannot rate this movie because I don't know how to. I've thought about a rating for hours and I've concluded this film is unrateable. I don't even know if "unrateable" is a real word, but I don't care because Gotti.

  John Travolta Oscar talk? Why the fuck not? After all New York City is the greatest fucking city in the world.

  Soundtrack of the year? I think so! FOR CRYING OUT LOUD MR. WORLDWIDE HIMSELF SCORED THIS MOVIE! There are T H R E E Pitbull songs in Gotti, yes you heard that correctly. Fuck!

  Fucking. Gotti. Man. Fuck

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  Review by matt lynch 2

  We showed this A.I. all your college dorm-mate's favorite gangster movies and then had it make one.

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★ 4

  Started joking about this movie at a party so we put it on and had a blast shit talking it the whole time. And for that, I can give it exactly one star.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★ 10

  There are exactly three interesting choices in “Gotti,” Kevin Connolly’s amateurish biopic about the late and legendary New York mobster, John Gotti. (Yes, E from “Entourage” directs movies. No, this isn’t the first one).

  The first comes at you right off the top: Inverting an exhausted trend, Connolly opens the movie with footage of the actual people in the story, rather than saving it for the closing credits as per usual. It’s a smart move, if only because John Travolta’s performance is hammy enough that we need hard evidence he’s playing a real person (he plays the Teflon Don like a cross between Ray Liotta and Alec Baldwin’s impression of Donald Trump).

  The second interesting choice is that some of…

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★ 10

  John Gotti knows what real pizza tastes like.

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  Review by SilentDawn 9

  TL;DF (Too Long; Didn't Finish)

  King of New Yawhk.

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★½ 2

  25/100

  A.V. Club review, in which I couldn't find room to list the many hilarious needle drops. My three favorites:

  •  Gotti strutting out of court post-acquittal to “Walk Like an Egyptian.”

  • “House of the Rising Sun” over Gotti’s funeral procession.

  • The synth bassline on “West End Girls” kicking in when a car explodes.

  (You really have to see that last one—the whole intro plays while the car sits there onscreen, then the driver turns on the ignition, BOOM!, dum dum dum, da dum da dum.)

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  Review by Will ★★★★★ 1

  Meatball meatball spaghetti underneath ravioli ravioli Great Barrier Reef

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  Review by Logan Kenny ★★ 2

  gave this a one initially but the ending is way too fucking funny for me to do that, absolutely love how they played house of the rising sun over footage of random people saying how john gotti was a fucking hero. pitbull is an auteur when it comes to playlists for gangster movies, he should soundtrack the irishman. also love how it ostensibly positions gotti as the antithesis of the government, like he's a hero for resisting against them by doing absolutely nothing except selfishly hoarding money and killing random motherfuckers. love la resistance. also gotti narrates after his death?? is he omnipotent? gotti a fuckin ghost oh god

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  Review by Ian ★★★★★ 6

  Sorry Scorsese but there's a new king in town and his name is Kevin Connolly