Life in the New York of the eighteen-seventies may have been constrained, but it was never dull—not if Scorsese’s camera is anything to go by.

| Jul 24, 2023

Joanne Woodward's narration is soothing without ever being folksy, while the closing scene, a shattering portrait of unbearable poignancy and regret, remains one of Scorsese's strongest endings...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 17, 2023

The Age of Innocence is a luxurious work of art.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2023

A consistent spellbinder, laying bare its inhabitants' follies and furies with a tender touch and a vigilant quietude that accumulates into a grand force.

| Aug 7, 2018

Following Wharton's example, Scorsese accepts The Age of Innocence's flamboyantly wealthy and corrupt characters as they are without indulging in fashionably retrospective editorializing.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 4, 2018

I don't know any of those [prior] versions, and I wonder how (which means I doubt that) they avoided the snare that Wharton unwittingly set for her adapters, the snare that, for all his gifts, caught Scorsese.

| Jun 19, 2013

Even after you’ve adjusted to the idea of Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, Cape Fear) directing a costume drama, you may not be prepared to enter the luxuriantly strange and subtle universe of THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

Day-Lewis and Pfeifer are on top form with Ryder giving the performance of her career.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 1, 2010

Manages to be both personal and true to its source, though it never quite comes together.

| Feb 1, 2010

An extraordinarily sumptuous piece of filmmaking.

Full Review | Sep 22, 2008

Spurning Masterpiece Theatre twittiness, Scorsese cuts to the primal passions of Wharton's tale.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2006

Mr. Scorsese has made a big, intelligent movie that functions as if it were a window on a world he had just discovered, and about which he can't wait to spread the news.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2006

Scorsese's most poignantly moving film.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2003

Scorsese shows he can flex an entirely different set of muscles and still make a great movie.

| Jan 1, 2000

Scorsese, that artist of headlong temperament, here exhibits enormous patience.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

As a period piece, it's a joy to behold, but with such an indecisive little newt of a protagonist, it's just hard to give a damn what happens.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Perhaps it shouldn't come as such a grand surprise that he is as deft at exploring the nuances of Edwardian manners as he is the laws of modern-day machismo.

| Jan 1, 2000