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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75 #23 (tie): Public Speaking

This 2010 HBO documentary about outspoken author Fran Lebowitz combines new interviews with Lebowitz with archival footage.

“This may not be Martin Scorsese's most sophisticated film, but it actually takes a smart filmmaker to understand that, with a subject like Fran Lebowitz, the best thing you can do is let her talk.” —David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle

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