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Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci in The Irishman (2019)

Metacritic reviews

The Irishman

94

Metascore

55 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
  • 100
    ConsequenceBrett Arnold
    ConsequenceBrett Arnold
    The Irishman is a remarkable achievement that proves the best may yet to come from one of the most essential American filmmakers to ever live.
  • 100
    The PlaylistJoe Blessing
    The PlaylistJoe Blessing
    The Irishman, which feels like the work of an older, wiser, less flashy filmmaker, is much more preoccupied with the soul of Frank Sheeran and reckoning with his choices.
  • 100
    VarietyOwen Gleiberman
    VarietyOwen Gleiberman
    Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a coldly enthralling, long-form knockout — a majestic Mob epic with ice in its veins. It’s the film that, I think, a lot us wanted to see from Scorsese: a stately, ominous, suck-in-your-breath summing up, not just a drama but a reckoning, a vision of the criminal underworld that’s rippling with echoes of the director’s previous Mob films, but that also takes us someplace bold and new.
  • 100
    IndieWireEric Kohn
    IndieWireEric Kohn
    The Irishman is alive with Scorsese’s trademark style.
  • 95
    TheWrapAlonso Duralde
    TheWrapAlonso Duralde
    This is a movie that’s rife with characters, with incidents, with ideas, with history, and as such, it will benefit from multiple viewings. But even after the first watch, The Irishman hits hard, and it’s a reminder that nearly 30 years after “GoodFellas,” Martin Scorsese still has fascinating mob tales to tell, and fascinating ways to tell them.
  • 90
    Vanity FairRichard Lawson
    Vanity FairRichard Lawson
    I found myself reluctantly taken by the movie, and the way Scorsese uses it to maybe, just a little bit, atone for some of his own past blitheness about violence. In The Irishman, a merry darkness slowly becomes an elegy, ringed with guilt. And what could be more Irish than that?
  • 80
    Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
    Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
    After a while, you adjust, or rather, you get tired of probing the slightly-off evidence of your eyes and the headache it produces. There’s a lot of fun to distract you.
  • 80
    ScreenCrushMatt Singer
    ScreenCrushMatt Singer
    The Irishman doesn’t always go by that quickly. But those moments contemplating the end of everything are among the most moving of Scorsese’s career.
  • 80
    The GuardianBenjamin Lee
    The GuardianBenjamin Lee
    There’s an almost meta-maturity, as if Scorsese is also looking back on his own career, the film leaving us with a haunting reminder not to glamorise violent men and the wreckage they leave behind.
  • 80
    The Hollywood ReporterStephen Dalton
    The Hollywood ReporterStephen Dalton
    Scorsese's choice to make this a standalone feature and not a limited series seems mildly perplexing. Anyone hoping for the propulsive dynamism of, say, Goodfellas or Casino may be disappointed. But The Irishman is also on many levels a beautifully crafted piece of deluxe cinema.
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