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).
The fourth and final collaboration between director Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader (following Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ), this bleak 1999 drama stars Nicolas Cage as a New York City paramedic plagued by the horrors he sees on his job. Patricia Arquette, Ving Rhames, and John Goodman also star.
“In a role as tailor-made for him as the story is for its writer and director, Nicolas Cage anchors the movie with one of his best performances.” —Mike Clark, USA Today