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).
For Scorsese, the 1980s were mostly forgettable, with only one modest box office hit (The Color of Money) and years spent pursuing a movie that few people ultimately had interest in seeing (The Last Temptation of Christ). Then came 1990, and Goodfellas, which immediately became the best gangster film ever made to not have the words "The Godfather" in its title. (Coincidentally, The Godfather Part III came out that same year, but nothing more need be said about that film.) An adaptation of Nicholas Pileggi's nonfiction book Wiseguy, Goodfellas reunited Scorsese with his frequent star Robert De Niro, joined by Ray Liotta and a memorable Joe Pesci, who won an Oscar for best supporting actor. The film as a whole collected six Academy Award nominations, including best picture (which it lost to Dances With Wolves) and best director (ditto).
“No finer film has ever been made about organized crime - not even 'The Godfather.'” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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