Every Martin Scorsese Movie Ranked Worst To Best
6. Killers Of The Flower Moon (2023)
Scorsese's latest feature, produced at the age of 80, is drenched in melancholy and a deep, personal view of mortality. It's also a touching, accurate portrayal of prejudice and corruption, swiftly paced and thrilling enough to make its whopping three-and-a-half-hour runtime simply fly by.
At the centre of the film is Leonardo DiCaprio as Ernest Burkhart, a snivelling, weak-willed man who seemingly falls in love with an Osage woman called Mollie (a heartbreaking Lily Gladstone) and uses their subsequent marriage to help destroy her family for their oil money.
Killers of the Flower Moon is a dark, morose tale of American ambition, racism and greed, calculated and visually arresting. You feel every pang of pain from the Osage Nation's relentless tragedy, and by the time it reaches its evocative final scene, you'll likely have no tears left to shed.