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).
Scorsese's 1991 remake of J. Lee Thompson's pulpy 1962 thriller casts Nick Nolte in the Gregory Peck role and Robert De Niro in the Robert Mitchum role, though both Mitchum and Peck (in his final film) appear in the remake as different characters. The remake remains one of Scorsese's biggest box office hits—adjusted for inflation, it trails only The Departed in domestic grosses for the director—and it earned Oscar nominations for De Niro and co-star Juliette Lewis.
“It's a brutal, demonic film with a grip like a vise; it grabs you early, its fingers around your throat, and never lets go.” —Hal Hinson, The Washington Post
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