A rapist released from prison hatches a nefarious plan to desecrate the family of the lawyer who ruined him in Scorsese’s disturbing and intense Hitchcockian take on vengeance, control and submission, a studio remake of the 1962 original.
Scorsese’s criminally ignored work based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is exquisite and expressive, as the psychological violence of complicated romances and illicit affairs threaten to implode in the cloistered high society of New York’s ‘Gilded Age’.
De Niro’s most wicked performance for a Scorsese picture, this is an incisively comical take on what happens when the determination to succeed in showbiz is taken to the extreme.
Scorsese’s scathing work about the exploitation of the Osage tribe in the 1920s by conniving White men is both intimate and expansive at the same time, and so well-paced that it makes 3½ hours feel like only two.
Violent, intense, darkly comic and a tour de force experience, this is God-tier Scorsese and one of the greatest films about gangsters and organised crime ever made.
A lesser but somewhat stylishly-crafted effort by Scorsese, featuring Nicolas Cage as a burnt-out paramedic who works the graveyard shift and is haunted by the victims he couldn’t save.
Scorsese’s entertaining Bob Dylan documentary doesn’t really go very deep but it is an indelible time capsule as it tracks the legendary artiste’s defining 1975 tour across America.
One of Scorsese’s greatest accomplishments—an astonishing character study of the rise and fall of a world champion middleweight boxer that is also an acting and editing masterclass.
Scorsese’s underappreciated 3-hour crime epic, about a high-end Las Vegas casino being run by an organised crime syndicate, is one of his most riveting films.
Stunning contributions by cinematographer Roger Deakins and composer Philip Glass aside, Scorsese’s religious biopic about the 14th Dalai Lama sometimes feels inert and uninspired from a narrative point-of-view.
Eternality Tan 