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).
After depicting New York City as a sort of hell in 1976's Taxi Driver, Scorsese decided to give his hometown a more affectionate tribute the following year with this musical—starring Liza Minnelli and Robert DeNiro—that blended jazz standards with new songs by Kander and Ebb. While the film itself isn't exactly memorable (and was a flop upon its release), its title song certainly is—especially after Frank Sinatra recorded a version of it three years later.
“Abandon your expectations of an orderly plot, and you'll end up humming the title song. The movie's a vast, rambling, nostalgic expedition back into the big band era, and a celebration of the considerable talents of Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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