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“Goodfellas. Despite being so entertaining and high-energy, there are so many scenes that slam on the brakes to ratchet up the anxiety and the dread to unbelievable levels and you really think things are about to go very, very wrong. The way Scorsese is constantly adjusting the tone and pace of the movie is so good. Obviously, the ‘funny how?’ scene, the one where Spider tells Tommy to go fuck himself, the entire ‘last day as a gangster’ sequence, and the one where Karen is walking down the alleyway towards the end had my stomach in knots.”