Martin Scorsese's new film, starring De Niro, Pacino and Pesci, is as much about friendship and the passing of time as it is a thriller.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 16, 2025

At its core, The Irishman is a tale on betrayal, violence, and the sacrificing of moral principles, with slithers of regret traced into it all.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2024

It’s hard to believe a film about mob mentality and scandal can be a strong candidate for themes of doubt and remorse, but Martin Scorsese has done it with grace and perfection.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2024

This is not a blatant retread of films like Taxi Driver and The Gangs of New York. The film has shots or sequences that mirror those films, but it brings something new to the table from a thematic or technical standpoint.

| May 10, 2024

The Irishman has the same Scorsese beats we have come to love but moves to a noticeably staggered rhythm in it's device of storytelling, laboured performances and reluctance to commit to the brutal energy of Goodfellas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2024

The Irishman tests patience with its runtime and less effective storytelling on a second watch. CGI de-aging distracts, yet Scorsese's touch shines in cinematography.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2024

One of the most important characteristics of the gangster genre is that we access the story through the point of view of the protagonist, in this case Frank Sheeran, who, is an immigrant. Through the narrative resource of the first person...

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jan 27, 2024

Loyalty can’t exist without betrayal, and Scorsese explores that dichotomy with surprising empathy. When Hoffa refuses to accommodate the will of the mafia, he triggers a Steinbeckian tragedy on par with Of Mice and Men.

| Jul 20, 2023

It is a personal view for an aging man who feels guilty for his betrayal and pays a hefty price...

| Mar 2, 2023

Even though [The Irishman is] extremely long, the way in which it depicts the themes of brotherhood and loyalty is superb.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 22, 2023

A genuine testament of art of making cinema as art. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 7, 2022

We’re watching characters decay over five decades (though many don’t live long enough to have that option) in just under three and a half hours, and I don’t know who wouldn’t be moved by that.

| Dec 2, 2022

In a lot of ways, this film is the antithesis to “Goodfellas”, a eulogy to the gangster genre the same way “Unforgiven” was a eulogy to the western genre.

| Nov 24, 2022

An All American epic that gains its import from its accumulation of seconds and minutes and years -- those tracking shots turned to myth, and we, a country of endless highways stretched end to end, always ending somewhere, on some face

| Nov 17, 2022

My obsession with Scorsese and this genre might not be healthy anymore. To the point where I found every minute of this movie interesting. The mob epic this director wanted to give us, throwing homages to the cinema that made him. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 21, 2022

Scorsese’s maturity and range as a storyteller is sure handed throughout. There isn’t a single misplaced camera angle, or, despite the film’s long length, a throwaway take.

| Oct 18, 2022

The Irishman is Scorsese’s Gangster Epic: A big, grand, ambitious rags to riches mob tale that blurs the lines between loyalty, friendship, and business. It might be the quickest 209-minutes in the history of cinema. Joe Pesci, welcome back.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

You could say “The Irishman” is above all things a tragedy. Underneath its veneer of wise guy tradition and violence lies the story of a man facing the music for his embrace of mob life and neglect of his family.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

The best comparison one could make to The Irishman is David Lean's similarly epic-sized Lawrence of Arabia (1962), a biography that examines its subject for four hours before conceding to its unknowability.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 23, 2022

The Irishman gives its audience so many emotions and is poignant, funny, violent, and beautiful. It is a modern-day mobster masterpiece from a master of his craft.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 18, 2022