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A Robert De Niro movie that scored greater than Goodfellas and The Godfather: Part II on Rotten Tomatoes is a must-watch for sci-fi followers. The dystopian story scored a powerful 98% on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, a rating system based mostly on opinions by skilled critics.

The 55 stellar opinions of Brazil examine with a 96% rating for The Godfather: Part II, which relies on 129 opinions, and 94% for Goodfellas with 166 scores. The 1985 darkish comedy directed by Terry Gilliam is about in a bureaucratic future, the place Robert De Niro performs Harry Tuttle, a wished terrorist. He turns into the topic of an investigation by a bored authorities employee, Sam Lowry, who discovers {that a} mistaken identification led to the wrongful arrest and eventual demise of an harmless man.

Sam, who makes an attempt to flee the monotony of his day-to-day life via a recurring daydream the place he saves a good looking damsel, then will get drawn right into a nightmarish net of conspiracies and surveillance after assembly the lady in actual life.

One critic wrote: “Gilliam crams the screen with such a proliferation of bizarre and comic details that you’ll want to revisit this particular nightmare again and again.”

Another added: “An uproarious satire of bureaucracy, technology, society, and humanity that proves to be one of the greatest movies of all time, sci-fi or otherwise.”

The movie is presently accessible to lease on Apple TV or Sky Store, or stream via Plex.

Another De Niro epic, The Godfather: Part II, additionally obtained rave opinions on the platform.

One critic commented: “If I consider The Godfather Part II a formidable film, it’s because it’s the perfect complement to the first, even when the latter apparently didn’t need it.”

Meanwhile De Niro was hailed for his starring position in Goodfellas, which follows a poor Irish-Italian who grew up in Fifties New York City and rises via the ranks of an organised crime department.

One critic wrote: “Funny and frightening, unpredictable and provocative, GoodFellas may be the most authentic Mafia picture ever made. The acting is superb, and so natural that no one — least of all De Niro — seems to be performing.”

Raging Bull, which follows De Niro as middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta via his rise and fall in skilled boxing and his turbulent private life, scored 92% on the evaluate platform.