Every Martin Scorsese Movie Ranked Worst To Best

Such is the quality of Scorsese's astonishing filmography that, with eighteen films still to count down, we're already amongst movies that many consider to be modern classics, maybe even bona fide masterpieces.

The Departed is the film that won Scorsese his first Best Director Oscar (it's still a travesty it wasn't his fifth or sixth), and it's a worthy victor. The bracing tale of moles (Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon) on either side of the law, the crime drama is slick, viscerally intense, and powerfully unpredictable to its ambiguous final shot.

The twists are, admittedly, quite overbearing - the final act throws so many double crosses at the audience it can be hard to keep up - and Damon and Jack Nicholson are slightly too over-the-top at times, but Scorsese makes this deceptive twister look easy. Flaws and all, it remains one of his most intensely entertaining productions.