Of his latest ventures, though, it is “Killers of the Flower Moon” that best captures the interstices between silence and splendor, complicity and culpability. It’s as much a grand meditative set piece on the terrors of the American settler project as it is a self-reflexive castigation of one’s own filmography, of the inadequacy and immateriality of narratives themselves.
The director was long identified with ornately edited set pieces. In The Irishman and his latest film, the flourishes have given way to blunt truths. Of all.
The director was long identified with ornately edited set pieces. In “The Irishman” and his latest film, the flourishes have given way to blunt truths.
From a moody Brad Pitt Western to a shocking true crime story, these five movies should be watched if you liked Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon.