Every Martin Scorsese Movie, Ranked
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).
Released a year after Scorsese's 1973 breakthrough Mean Streets, Alice is a much lighter film, following a widow (Ellen Burstyn in an Oscar-winning performance) who sets off with her young son in search of a better life—which includes work as a lounge singer. The hit film's excellent cast includes Scorsese regular Harvey Keitel plus Kris Kristofferson, Diane Ladd, and an 11-year-old Jodie Foster. Vic Tayback also co-starred as the owner of a diner, and he would reprise his role as Mel for nine seasons on the CBS sitcom Alice, which was very loosely based on the film.
“One of the rare films that genuinely deserve to be called controversial. I think people will really fight about it. It's the story of a woman who has a second chance thrust on her; she knows enough not to make the same mistake again, but she isn't sure of much else. Neither is the movie. Alice is thoroughly enjoyable: funny, absorbing, intelligent even when you don't believe in what's going on--when the issues it raises get all fouled up.” —Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
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