Rotten Tomatoes: 100% (5 reviews) with 8.70 in average ratingMetacritic: 93/100 (15 critics)As with other movies, the scores are set to change as time passes. Meanwhile, I'll post some short reviews on the movie. It's structured like this: quote first, source second. Audiences unfamiliar with Grann’s book — or with the actual history, which draws a parallel early on with the Tulsa Race Massacre — might be at a slight advantage here given that each nasty turn this ugly chapter from America’s past takes makes its depravity more astonishing. Scorsese has made an impassioned film that honors both the victims and the survivors.-David Rooney, The Hollywood ReporterIt’s a difficult balancing act for a filmmaker as gifted and operatic as Scorsese, whose ability to tell any story rubs up against his ultimate admission that this might not be his story to tell. And so, for better or worse, Scorsese turns “Killers of the Flower Moon” into the kind of story that he can still tell better than anyone else: A story about greed, corruption, and the mottled soul of a country that was born from the belief that it belonged to anyone callous enough to take it. -David Ehrlich, IndieWire: B+Instead of focusing his cameras on the Native victims, the 'Irishman' director lets Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro have the lion's share of the screen time in this meaty but demanding true-crime saga.-Peter Debruge, VarietyIn that regard, his “Killers of the Flower Moon” is vast and vital in its scale, purpose and emotional scope, a Western-thriller and ensemble piece that is every bit a Scorsese crime picture as one can dare to imagine.-Tomris Laffly, The WrapAs such, Killers of the Flower Moon is of a piece with not only The Irishman but also Scorsese’s other recent film Silence. These works have a much more melancholic energy than his baroque, frenzied prior efforts — The Wolf of Wall Street, Shutter Island, and The Departed. The 80-year-old director is undeniably in the twilight of his career — “I want to tell stories, and there’s no more time,” he told Deadline. Fittingly, Killers of the Flower Moon is paced deliberately, almost like an elegy. It’s also one of the most rewarding projects of his long career, a sign that Scorsese has no intention of fading away — even as the film landscape transforms around him yet again.-David Sims, The AtlanticKillers Of The Flower Moon takes us through a very dark part of our history (and incredibly at the same time of the horrendous Tulsa massacre of 1921 just 30 minutes down the road) and if it does nothing else, reminds of just how horrible we can be to each other, a reminder needed now more than ever. That alone makes Killers Of The Flower Moon a movie that could not come at a better time.-Pete Hammond, DeadlineFor all its extravagant running time (three hours and 26 minutes!), its big-swing history lessons, and its tale of an Old West giving way to the regimentation of a modern police force, Killers of the Flower Moon turns out to be that simplest and slipperiest of things: the story of a marriage. And a twisted, tragic one at that.-Bilge Ebiri, VultureScorsese’s film is nonetheless effectively rattling, a grueling delineation of events that gracefully eschews the melodrama and sensationalism of so much true crime. Gladstone ably holds the soul of the film, while DiCaprio and De Niro provide damning illustrations of good-old-boy affability masking so much prejudice and avarice. (Jesse Plemons is also a comfortingly competent presence as an investigator from the newly formed FBI.) Those heading to a Martin Scorsese movie looking for the electric verve of so many of his past films may initially be disappointed. But as Killers of the Flower Moon seeps in, it shocks, resounds, and haunts.-Richard Lawson, Vanity FairAbove all, it’s a Martin Scorsese picture, brimming with reverence for a culture that survived a horrible trauma as it is filled with exhilarating flourishes, film history references, and explorations of the faultline between the sacred and profane. And yes: It’s a masterpiece.-David Fear, Rolling StonePLOTMembers of the Osage tribe in northeastern Oklahoma are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major FBI investigation directed by a 29-year-old J. Edgar Hoover and former Texas Ranger Tom White, described by author David Grann as "an old-style lawman."DIRECTOR Martin ScorseseWRITEREric Roth & Martin Scorsese (based on Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI* by David Grann)MUSICRobbie RobertsonCINEMATOGRAPHYRodrigo PrietoEDITORThelma SchoonmakerBUDGET$200 millionRelease date: May 20, 2023 (Cannes Film Festival)October 6, 2023 (limited theatrical release)October 20, 2023 (wide theatrical release)Runtime:206 minutesSTARRINGLeonardo DiCaprio as Ernest BurkhartRobert De Niro as William HaleLily Gladstone as Mollie BurkhartJesse Plemons as Tom WhiteBrendan Fraser as W. S. HamiltonJohn Lithgow as Prosecutor Leaward via /r/movies https://ift.tt/yEC1z86
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