Scorsese returns to form with Killers Of The Flower Moon

IS Martin Scorsese Hollywood’s greatest living director? Some would say he is. His younger counterparts such as Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh, both 60, have made headlines for announcing their retirement plans, but Scorsese, at 80, has done no such thing. With minimum fuss, he continues to make one cinematic gem after another.

His films in recent years, such as Silence (2016) and The Irishman (2019), are considered very good – much better than his output before that (The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013; Hugo, 2011; Shutter Island, 2010).

But his latest film, Killers Of The Flower Moon, is arguably better than all of them. It inches closer than its predecessors to being a masterpiece – even if it doesn’t quite hit the mark of his unimpeachably perfect pictures, including Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980) and Goodfellas (1990).