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Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

Martin Scorsese

Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons ...

7.0

23,259

Thriller. Western. Drama

Thriller. Western. Drama

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

	Media	Author	Review
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Enthralling (...) a sprawling, densely plotted work that demands a lot of its audience. But the three-and-a-half-hour running time is fully justified in an escalating tragedy that never loosens its grip"
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Scorsese masterpiece gives DiCaprio his best role yet (...) Scorsese has outdone himself with this extravagant Western (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"DiCaprio gives his best performance for Scorsese’s bitterest crime epic. (...) [it] sacrifices the mythic sweep of David Grann's book in favor of telling a poisonous love story. (...) Grade: B+"
		Peter Debruge Variety	"Overlong but Never Slow (...) meaty but demanding true-crime saga (...) A morally indignant look back at a slow-motion massacre that gets so bogged down in details, it loses the thread."
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is Martin Scorsese’s great american tragedy. The filmmaker takes on David Grann’s bestseller about a murder epidemic among the Osage and turns it into a masterpiece"
		Xan Brooks The Guardian	"Killers of the Flower Moon is monumentally long (206 minutes) and moves at an unhurried pace, but it knows where it’s going and barely a second is wasted. It’s sinuous and old-school, an instant American classic (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"Those heading to a Martin Scorsese movie looking for the electric verve of so many of his past films may initially be disappointed. But (...) it shocks, resounds, and haunts."
		Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"A masterpiece (...) DiCaprio and De Niro are brilliant, but it is relative unknown Lily Gladstone who is truly extraordinary. (...) It’s Gladstone who provides the film’s centre of gravity. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"'Killers of the Flower Moon' grips, disturbs — and disappoints (...) DiCaprio and De Niro, obviously the movie’s main selling point, also comes to feel like its central distraction."
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"An attempt to capture the soul of the nation, and the length and breadth of its original sin (...) Set in the 1920s, 'Killers Of The Flower Moon' is of John Huston scope, with some of the edge of a Chinatown. "
		Tomris Laffly The Wrap	"Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro are terrific in this true crime epic that is vast and vital (...) [An] ensemble piece that is every bit a Scorsese crime picture as one can dare to imagine"
		Charles Bramesco Decider	"Martin Scorsese’s umpteenth masterpiece"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"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. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"[It] delivers historical insight in sweeping, epic style (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"Scorsese and DiCaprio score (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Murtada Elfadl AV Club	"[It] is as momentous as the country it’s set in and as full of history as the people whose murder it depicts"
		Keith Uhlich Slant	"Scorsese’s engrossing historical thriller is a three-hander on an epic canvas (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"An admirable yet vexingly uneven film (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard	"One of the best Westerns ever made and almost certainly the best film of 2023 so far (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Therese Lacson Collider	"'Killers of the Flower Moon' is worthy of a watch for Scorsese fans, but it doesn't tell a comprehensive story"
		Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"A masterful historical drama about evil operating in plain sight (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Pete Hammond Deadline	"'Killers of theFlower Moon' is a landmark motion picture achievement, if only for the care and handling of how it tells the story of the Osage Nation."
		Robert Daniels The Playlist	"Lily Gladstone is devastating (...) It’s powerful, even when you’re left wondering if someone else could’ve spread the gospel"
		Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"A legit masterpiece, ranking among director Martin Scorsese’s greatest films"
		Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"It’s utterly gripping and impeccably constructed (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Siddhant Adlakha IGN	"[It] revisits the Osage murders of the 1920s with a masterful hand, and a shockingly frank approach to violence and white supremacy"
		Maxwell Rabb Chicago Reader	"It is a colossal testament to Martin Scorsese’s enduring ability as a filmmaker, compounded by gripping performances from Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, and Leonardo DiCaprio"
		Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"A monumental achievement for Scorsese (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"A monumental achievement for Scorsese (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		John Nugent Empire	"Exceptional filmmaking, by an exceptional filmmaker (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Donald Clarke Irish Times	"The film rates high in the 21st-century Scorsese canon, but it asks for substantial patience (...) There are issues here, but the great man has still got it. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"With a phenomenal cast, captivating visuals, and a story that will break your heart and anger you, 'Killers of the Flower Moon' is a must-see film (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Lou Thomas NME	"Heartbreaking (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Wendy Ide The Guardian	"A towering Robert De Niro, an against-type Leonardo DiCaprio and a magnetic Lily Gladstone shine in the director’s gripping account of a shocking episode in US history (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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