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 be attracting attention for its use of a digital "de-aging" process to allow its stars to appear as their younger selves, but this 2019 Netflix gangster feature is clearly the beneficiary of decades of experience, as it finds the director and his stars (Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and a coming-out-of-retirement Joe Pesci) operating at the top of their game. The story, told over multiple decades, touches on the famed disappearance Jimmy Hoffa, and critics think it represents Scorsese's best work in ages.
“It’s the film that, I think, a lot us wanted to see from Scorsese: a stately, ominous, suck-in-your-breath summing up, not just a drama but a reckoning, a vision of the criminal underworld that’s rippling with echoes of the director’s previous Mob films, but that also takes us someplace bold and new.” —Owen Gleiberman, Variety
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