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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Xan Brooks

Killers of the Flower Moon review – Scorsese’s magnificent period epic is an instant American classic

Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio
On powerhouse form … Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon. Photograph: Melinda Sue Gordon/PR

Fate has smiled on the Osage Indian nation, out in Oklahoma. The reservation sits on an oasis of black gold; the First Nation people have become oil multimillionaires. They bump along the dirt roads in chauffeur-driven Buicks, play golf on the grassland and take private planes for a spin.

But this newfound fortune brings danger; they want to watch out they’re not killed. The history of the west, after all, is one of exploitation and slaughter.

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