Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic, seen through the eyes of a mob hit man, is a breakthrough for the filmmaker and his stars
After scores of celebrated films and almost half a century of richly deserved fame, Martin Scorsese did not seem poised for a breakthrough. That’s what he’s accomplished in “The Irishman,” though, and on familiar—indeed overfamiliar—terrain.
Once again he is recounting the exploits of gangsters, very bad goodfellas who whack one another without mercy and tend to come to bad ends. Once again he’s working with two of his closest collaborators, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, plus Al Pacino, who has invested fair amounts of his own time playing persons of violent persuasion. Yet this new film, which seems shorter than its...
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