...may not be a traditional gangster picture, but it's completely in tune with the stories of corrupt, violent men that Scorsese has explored for a half-century.
Monumental stuff: a story about the deadly legacy of America’s colonial sins, both vast and intimate in scope. Exceptional filmmaking, by an exceptional filmmaker.
This is a must watch. I watched Oppenheimer 3 times in theatres and might as well do the same with this one. The level of acting in this is at a whole other level.
...as brutal as they come. It spans dozens of murders over several years, across a herculean 206 minutes that allow you to dwell on its brutality in a way few movies ever do.
...an utterly absorbing film, a story that Scorsese sees as a secret history of American power, a hidden violence epidemic polluting the water table of humanity.
This is filmmaking. And I was so caught up in it that the 206 minutes flew by. Both De Niro's character and his performance are up there with his very best, and I think this may actually even be my new favorite Scorsese movie!
It is, in a strange way, a rueful, elegiac sister film to 2010’s lude-powered bacchanal, The Wolf of Wall Street, in that it offers a stinging critique of capitalist exploitation that’s operating at a sociopathic level...