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).
It may not be Scorsese's highest-scoring film, but it was his only best picture winner—and his only Oscar win for best director. A remake of the 2002 Hong Kong cop drama Infernal Affairs penned by William Monahan, The Departed transports the story to South Boston and finds Scorsese enlisting Leonardo DiCaprio for his third straight narrative feature. Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Alec Baldwin, and Martin Sheen are just some of the other names in an impressive cast.
“When a director of Scorsese's caliber is working at the top of his game, it's a reminder of why we go to the movies in the first place.” —Scott Tobias, A.V. Club
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