Every Martin Scorsese Movie Ranked Worst To Best

The Irishman feels like a swan song, the culmination of an entire career's work. Taking a simultaneously broad and intimate approach to the mob, this Netflix drama is as haunting as it is exhaustive, a portrait of men doomed by their sins.

Robert De Niro stars as Frank Sheehan, a hitman who befriends Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) and, years later, must share his greatest secrets with a nursing home priest. It's a cold and methodical affair, selling each man in Sheehan's life - from Hoffa to Joe Pesci's mob boss - a cursed, hopeless soul waiting for their inescapable fate.

It has its flaws - its distracting de-aging effects, primarily - but nothing capable of damaging its overall effect. Scorsese has always known that mob life is an ugly business bursting with immorality and unforgivable villains, and The Irishman makes that clearer than ever. These men may have had it all, but they were always damned.