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 in the spring of 2023, Scorsese's first feature of any kind in four years (though just one of two planned 2023 releases) is a documentary co-directed by David Tedeschi, who worked as an editor on Scorsese's 2019 Bob Dylan doc Rolling Thunder Revue. Here, the two filmmakers profile musician David Johansen, best known as the frontman for the influential punk band New York Dolls, though he has also performed as a solo act under the name Buster Poindexter (and does so again during the film, with the cabaret-style pre-pandemic concert taking up a big chunk of Personality's running time). Some critics found the film a bit long, but most deemed Johansen a very compelling subject.
“It’s a documentary of sterling musical moments and clever connections between culture and the city that all the principals here so clearly adore.” —Dan Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter
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