Everyone loves Martin Scorsese. But has he made a truly great movie since Goodfellas? He’s churned out technically-brilliant true-crime thrillers (Casino, Gangs of New York, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman) and dabbled in other genres (The Age of Innocence, Kundun, Hugo, Silence). Yet something’s always been missing. Till now.
60 year-old Quentin Tarantino says he’s quitting the directing game because he doesn’t want to become “this old man who’s out of touch.” What a plonker. Killers of the Flower Moon suggests film-makers should keep on keeping on. I’d even put my cowboy boot on the line and declare this (Scorsese’s first foray into the genre) one of the best Westerns ever made and almost certainly the best film of 2023 so far.
