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 closed out the 1970s with yet another masterpiece—and certainly one of the best sports movies ever made. Though Raging Bull couldn't match the best picture win of Rocky, another boxing film released just four years earlier, the film did receive a nomination for best picture among its eight total Academy Award nominations—including Scorsese's first best director nomination. Robert De Niro famously gained 60 pounds to portray real-life boxer Jake LaMotta, while Joe Pesci—in his first major film role and first of four Scorsese collaborations—plays his brother and manager. Why isn't it ranked even higher in our list? Reviews at the time of its 1980 release were surprisingly mixed, though it didn't take long for Bull to develop its reputation as one of Scorsese's best films.
“Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull is the best American movie of the year, Scorsese's best film and at long last replaces Robert Wise's 'The Set-Up' (1949) as the best film about prizefighting ever made.” —Jack Kroll, Newsweek
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