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's fifth film released during a particularly busy two years from 2010-11 is a unique entry in his filmography: It's his first 3D film, and his first (semi) children's movie. Based on Brian Selznick's historical novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret (in turn inspired by real-life filmmaker and inventor Georges Méliès), Hugo is an adventure set in 1930s Paris. No film that year had more Academy Award nominations, and Hugo eventually won five Oscars, though it lost the best picture race to an actual French film set during the same time period (albeit in Hollywood): The Artist.
“As well as an engaging fable about a homeless orphan living in a train station, Scorsese's film is a richly illustrated lesson in cinema history and the best argument for 3-D since James Cameron's 'Avatar.'” —Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail
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