Killers of the Flower Moon

"Giving cinema respect", as recently supported by The Man, The Meme, The Legend himself should never translate to his audience sitting through 200 minutes of repetitive events led by a dull main character with only the slightest narrative through line to hang it all on. It’s then less about respect and more about a seasoned director becoming complacent. No matter how well your actors perform, or how good your crew is, a mediocre script will often lead to a forgetabble film

They could, and should, have cut a FULL 90 minutes from this. There's no reason this needed to be anything longer than 2 hours. So many Leo & De Niro conspiring scenes, so many courtroom scenes, so many jail scenes, so many "sweaty in bed" scenes. Ugh. There's a really good movie in there somewhere.

The best film released since The Irishman. Scorsese already made his case for the title of the greatest filmmaker of all time long ago, and he's spending his elder years doing victory laps. I already want to watch it again and again

This is a mess. Despite the strength of their acting in early scenes, Gladstone and DiCaprio's characters become a serious problem. She's too inert and he's too stupid, too sublimely ambivalent. They're nowhere near credible. The result, for me, was that the hamfisted moralizing of the last two scenes felt completely unearned. Were those seriously tears in Scorsese's eyes? After a success like Silence,this was thoroughly disappointing. Overlong, self-serious, almost unwatchable.

The length of this movie is not at all justified. Yes, the cinematography and some of the performances are great (they do a lot of the heavy lifting here), but the screenplay and editing definitely could have used a few more passes. The audience learns early on what is going to happen, and then everything just plays out so predictably. Very repetitive and self indulgent with little character development. Not entirely bad, but the whole thing is just overwrought and underwritten.