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).
Much like The King of Comedy, After Hours is an early-1980s black comedy made by Scorsese after originally being set up for a different director (in this case, Tim Burton) during a slow period when Scorsese was otherwise attempting—and failing—to get The Last Temptation of Christ in production. Neither film was a box office hit, but both have developed a cult following, with After Hours having the better reviews of the pair. The film, based on (or perhaps stolen from) a story by radio monologist Joe Frank, spends an evening in the life of a computer programmer as he makes his way through a series of misadventures in New York. The ensemble includes Rosanna Arquette, Teri Garr, Catherine O'Hara, and Cheech and Chong.
“This unpredictable and hilarious paranoid fantasy is a contemporary, urban "Wizard of Oz," peopled by punk artists and Yuppie vigilantes instead of wicked witches and Munchkins.” —Julie Salamon, The Wall Street Journal
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