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).
One of the best films to emerge from cinema's greatest decade, Scorsese's 1976 classic was nominated for four Oscars, though it lost the best picture race to Rocky. (It did, however, win that year's Palme d'Or at Cannes.) Taxi Driver featured a screenplay by future director Paul Schrader and the final score by film composer legend Bernard Herrmann. It also marked the on-screen debut for Albert Brooks and featured Cybill Shepherd and Harvey Keitel in supporting roles. But the grimy, violent, New York-set thriller's two real stars are its two other Oscar nominees: Robert DeNiro as Vietnam War veteran turned taxi-driving vigilante Travis Bickle, and 12-year-old Jodie Foster, playing a very young prostitute in her breakthrough role.
“Acting of this sort is rare in films. It is a display of talent, which one gets in the theater, as well as a demonstration of behavior, which is what movies usually offer. Were Mr. De Niro less an actor, the character would be a sideshow freak.” —Vincent Canby, The New York Times
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