Killers of the Flower Moon - Reviews

...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.

There’s a perennial fascination in the films of Martin Scorsese with the notion of power – the structures of it, the layers to it, the flow of it.

Martin Scorsese's uniquely American tragedy.

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.

Martin Scorsese’s masterful American tragedy.

Scorsese has outdone himself with this extravagant Western about the Osage Indian murders, with DiCaprio and De Niro on terrific form.

...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.

In his 80th year, Martin Scorsese remains a master of craft and storytelling...

...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.

Scorsese's multi-layered epic is worth every second.

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...