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Killers of the Flower Moon Reviews

This story of greed and betrayal is a fine film ruined by its inordinate length.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 17, 2025

Despite a runtime of 3 hours and 26 minutes, the screenplay is watertight as no time is wasted on unnecessary things, in fact, many crucial elements are added beautifully by Scorsese to make this narrative intricate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2024

The film doesn’t drop the ball and plays out a well-thought-out retelling of history.

| Sep 20, 2024

Its compassion for groups like the Osage Nation is matched only by its condemnation of greedy values and selfish ambitions at the expense of others.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 19, 2024

By its final act, when you’ve journeyed through some of its most inspired filmmaking homages, one thing remains clear: “Killers of the Flower Moon” is really a horror film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

Scorsese’s effort is outstanding across the board, from his methodical direction to his heartrendingly honest truths about the American Dream.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 3, 2024

For three and a half hours, Scorsese immerses us in these acts, and he doesn’t allow us to look away. He refuses us the catharsis of justice, because history provides none.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 2, 2024

While the pacing could never be called snappy, the film is still captivating, plunging audiences into a time so different from our own and then compelling them to stay.

| Jun 6, 2024

In the hands of any filmmaker, other than Scorsese, Mollie and her family would've turned into fleeting images covered in dust with the focus shifting towards how the crimes occurred and how far they went. Problem is .. I can't decide which I prefer!

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jun 5, 2024

Killers of the Flower Moon is, for such a dramatic and dark film, wildly entertaining throughout its epic runtime.

| May 29, 2024

Martin Scorsese's masterpiece is an epic of love, oil, and betrayal among the Osage.

| May 21, 2024

“Killers of the Flower Moon” is just another Scorsese gangster film in social conscious drag. On those terms, it is a sublime, unrelenting film that mines the humor from a grim situation and nails the period in a way that no other film has.

| May 11, 2024

For all of the energy [Scorsese] invests in honoring the First Peoples by revealing how they were deceived and slaughtered, his fascination with the depravity of powerful men still seems the subject he’s most excited about dramatizing.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 29, 2024

There’s acting and there’s existing in a realm as a performer. Lily Gladstone exists as Mollie Burkhart. She downplays the act, she breathes through the character, patiently waits, exerts power, and navigates a hostile world...

| Apr 17, 2024

Lily Gladston's performance is the only reason to see this movie. "Killers of the Flower Moon" is a grueling, punishing experience to sit through. Anyone with a half a brain could edit an hour out of this movie, blindfolded.

| Original Score: ONE STAR | Mar 18, 2024

That it remains riveting and accessible despite the gravity of the subject matter is a testament to Scorsese's storytelling moxie, a lived-in screenplay credited to the director and Eric Roth, and Thelma Schoonmaker...

| Mar 11, 2024

Gladstone’s performance is unlike anything else in Scorsese’s work.

| Mar 8, 2024

Terrible things have indeed occurred throughout history. Are we doing anything to change that in the future? Or are we simply devouring their pain greedily?

| Original Score: A | Feb 28, 2024

While Killers of the Flower Moon is a reflection of the incessant need to document suffering through a white lens, reluctance to commit to the very real and ongoing pain, Lily Gladstone, the Indigenous cast, as well as the Osage Nation, shines brightest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2024

Killers of the Flower Moon’s 'Greenbook' approach to the Osage murders, misses a crucial perspective. While Lily Gladstone shines, the film's angle disappoints.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2024

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