Review: Killers of the Flower Moon
[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] When this money started coming, we should have known it came with...
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[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] When this money started coming, we should have known it came with...
[The following analysis contains MAJOR SPOILERS; you have been warned!] Contrary to their ostensible purpose—i.e., to depict an accurate...
[The following review contains SPOILERS; you have been warned!] If the poetry of violence is a language in and of itself, then Martin...
Caught a midnight screening of Martin Scorsese’s Who’s That Knocking at My Door at IFC Center. It’s been years since I first saw it (home...
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Martin Scorsese is the most religious—or, at the very least, the most spiritual—filmmaker...
Hit IFC Center for a midnight screening of Boxcar Bertha, one of the few remaining Scorsese films I hadn’t seen yet. This variation on...
“You know what you remind me of? That song by... Kris Kristofferson.” Betsy pauses, searching her memory for the lyrics. “He’s a… he’s a...
Last night, I finally got to see Martin Scorsese’s long overdue adaptation of Silence—though it’s hard to say whether or not I enjoyed...
I tried several times to call her, but after the first call, she wouldn’t come to the phone any longer. I also sent flowers but with no...
It’s easy to read Taxi Driver as a “coming home” narrative. Viewed through this lens, Travis Bickle’s enigmatic actions and ambiguous...
After Martin Scorsese transformed his superb screenplay for Taxi Driver into an even better motion picture—one of the most hypnotically...
In one of his more in-depth analyses of Taxi Driver, Roger Ebert writes, It is a widely known item of cinematic lore that Paul Schrader’s...
Wide, tortured eyes dart wildly from side-to-side, bathed in the disorienting flash of multicolored lights. Sound familiar? Well, these...
Travis Bickle inhabits a Hell on Earth. His taxi cab is a sanctuary from the smoke-belching, neon-drenched, garbage-strewn streets of New...
It’s already cliché to call Hugo “Scorsese’s love letter to cinema,” but what else does one call a movie that features Georges Melies,...
Ever since Edwin S. Porter had his great train robber fire directly at the camera, the landscape of cinema has been drenched in blood....