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).
Scorsese has been around long enough that he has not only had several long-gestating passion projects but has actually been able to see them through to completion. The first was this epic (and highly controversial) 1988 retelling of the life of Jesus Christ, based on the book of the same name by Nikos Kazantzakis which Scorsese first optioned a decade earlier. Last Temptation features a Paul Schrader script (the writer's third of four Scorsese collaborations), a terrific Peter Gabriel score, and a cast led by Willem Dafoe as Jesus, Harvey Keitel as Judas, Barbara Hershey as Mary, and David Bowie as Pontius Pilate. The film was a box office flop (and was famously banned from Blockbuster Video once it reached VHS), but it did earn Scorsese his second best director Oscar nomination.
“A film of challenging ideas, and not salacious provocations, The Last Temptation of Christ is a powerful and very modern reinterpretation of Jesus as a man wracked with anguish and doubt concerning his appointed role in life.” —Variety
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