Ray Liotta

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Cocaine Bear review – larky horror comedy is roaring good fun
Elizabeth Banks’s playfully anarchic creature-feature about a rampaging beast high on drugs is as daft as it is entertaining

Mark Kermode, Observer film critic

26, Feb, 2023 @8:00 AM

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Cocaine Bear review – critter-on-drugs thriller struggles to live up to sensational title
Not since Snakes on a Plane has a title promised so much, but despite a great cast the plot is too tame

Ellen E Jones

23, Feb, 2023 @9:00 PM

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Hollywood bids farewell to three greats united by mafia films and friendship
Tony Sirico, Ray Liotta and James Caan helped to define the modern mob movie

Robin McKie

10, Jul, 2022 @8:00 AM

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Black Bird review – Ray Liotta is heartbreaking in this posthumous prison drama
This exquisitely pitched true-crime series about an inmate having to befriend a serial murderer at the behest of the FBI is a fitting farewell to the Goodfellas actor

Lucy Mangan

08, Jul, 2022 @5:00 AM

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Martin Scorsese on Ray Liotta in Goodfellas: ‘The new guy never missed a beat’
The great director remembers the actor’s astonishing performance in his gangster classic – and the day the distraught star had to play a euphoric scene right after receiving tragic news

Martin Scorsese

06, Jun, 2022 @7:00 AM

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Ray Liotta obituary
Actor whose charred handsomeness and mercurial qualities led to magnetic performances in Goodfellas and Something Wild

Ryan Gilbey

27, May, 2022 @4:39 PM

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Interviewing Ray Liotta was a unique experience - he was an actor without pretence
The Many Saints star was impervious to my attempts to butter him up – maybe his lack of air-kissing pretension is what stopped him becoming a leading man after Goodfellas

Hadley Freeman

27, May, 2022 @10:19 AM

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Ray Liotta: Goodfellas actor had boyish radiance to puncture the toughness | Peter Bradshaw
The actor, who has died at the age of 67, was rightly best known for his staggering, swaggering turn in Scorsese’s mob classic – but other roles added further grit, humour and heart

Peter Bradshaw

26, May, 2022 @6:16 PM

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Ray Liotta, star of Goodfellas and Field of Dreams, dies aged 67
The actor, whose films also include Something Wild and Hannibal, died in his sleep while shooting his latest project in the Dominican Republic

Benjamin Lee

26, May, 2022 @5:03 PM

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Ray Liotta: ‘Why haven’t I worked with Scorsese since Goodfellas? You’d have to ask him. I’d love to’
After years of avoiding crime films, he’s back as a mafioso in the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark. He talks about being adopted and getting into acting – and saves a surprise for the end

Hadley Freeman

24, Sep, 2021 @7:00 AM

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The Many Saints of Newark review – Sopranos prequel keeps it in the family
Michael Gandolfini is goosebump-inducing as the young Tony Soprano, amid race riots and antagonism towards rival African American gangs

Peter Bradshaw

21, Sep, 2021 @4:00 PM

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No Sudden Move review – Steven Soderbergh’s daring heist drama
The director’s nifty new trick has him using the gloss of a crowd-pleasing heist movie to discuss race, industry and politics in 50s America

Charles Bramesco

02, Jul, 2021 @1:36 PM

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