Every Martin Scorsese Movie, Ranked

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – July 10, 2019

Updated May 2023 to add Killers of the Flower Moon and Personality Crisis.

Is Martin Scorsese the greatest living director? He's certainly one of the very few who has a perfect record of green Metascores, receiving positive reviews for every single film he has directed—even though that film count has now surpassed 30. The average Metascore for films he has directed is above 78, another impressive mark.

In the gallery above, we rank every full-length feature that Scorsese has directed in his career by Metascore, ordered from worst (i.e., least terrific) to best.

Note: Short films are excluded, as are the 1970 documentary rarity Street Scenes (considered by many to be a short, though it's nearly feature length) and 1995's longform doc A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (which aired as a portion of an even longer miniseries).

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74 #25 (tie): George Harrison: Living in the Material World

Scorsese's 2011 documentary, which earned six Emmy nominations (and landed the director his second career Emmy trophy after picking up his first the prior year for Boardwalk Empire) after it debuted on HBO, spends nearly four hours tracing the life and career of the former Beatle.

“The exhaustive nature of it, and the intimacy that Scorsese and his collaborators develop with both their subject and those who knew him, makes it into something more than a three-plus hour rehash of an oft-told tale.” —Alan Sepinwall, Hitfix

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