Every Martin Scorsese Movie, Ranked

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – July 10, 2019

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).

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90 #5 (tie): My Voyage to Italy

Airing on Italian television in 1999 and screened at film festivals in 2001, this four-hour documentary traces the history of Italian cinema, and features Scorsese discussing films that influenced his own career. It echoes a similar documentary about American cinema that Scorsese made a few years earlier (and which is not included in this list because it was just one portion of an even longer TV miniseries by multiple filmmakers).

“Has power not only as film scholarship, but as an inquiry into cinema's interplay with our collective memories and the nature of history itself.” —F.X. Feeney, LA Weekly

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