Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro’s epic new film hailed as ‘masterpiece’
This night, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and their co-stars attended the world premiere of Martin Scorsese’s new film Killers of the Flower Moon on the Cannes Film Festival.
Expected to be a scorching Oscars contender in 2024, the epic blockbuster relies on the 2017 non-fiction guide Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
The movie adaptation that brings the director’s appearing favourites (DiCaprio and DeNiro) collectively for the primary time is about in Twenties Oklahoma and follows the FBI investigation into the mysterious murders of the Osage tribe at the moment.
The first evaluations have landed giving Killer of the Flower Moon 95 per cent constructive evaluations on Rotten Tomatoes, showering the movie with reward.
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London Evening Standard
Killers of the Flower Moon suggests filmmakers ought to carry on conserving on. I’d even put my cowboy boot on the road and declare this among the best Westerns ever made and virtually actually one of the best movie of 2023 to date.
The Atlantic
De Niro is magnificently unsettling within the movie — it is perhaps one of the best work he’s carried out with Scorsese since Goodfellas — however the emotional powerhouses are DiCaprio and Gladstone.
The Hollywood Reporter
The three-and-a-half-hour working time is absolutely justified in an escalating tragedy that by no means loosens its grip — a sordid illustration of historic erasure with echoes in immediately’s bitterly divisive political gamesmanship.
Rolling Stone
[A picture] brimming with reverence for a tradition that survived a horrible trauma as it’s stuffed with exhilarating thrives, movie historical past references, and explorations of the faultline between the sacred and profane. And sure: It’s a masterpiece.
The Guardian
This is an completely absorbing movie, a narrative that Scorsese sees as a secret historical past of American energy, a hidden violence epidemic polluting the water desk of humanity.
Deadline
Killers Of The Flower Moon is a landmark movement image achievement, if just for the care and dealing with of the way it tells the story of the Osage Nation.
Variety
In its current kind, “Killers” continues to be a compelling true story… It’s engrossing from the get-go, the palpable stress methodically echoed by Robbie Robertson’s steady-heartbeat rating. But it retains going and going.
Vanity Fair
Those heading to a Martin Scorsese film on the lookout for the electrical verve of so lots of his previous movies might initially be upset. But as Killers of the Flower Moon seeps in, it shocks, resounds, and haunts.
LA Times
The triple-threat combo of Scorsese, DiCaprio and De Niro, clearly the film’s predominant promoting level, additionally involves really feel like its central distraction. Gladstone’s efficiency… goes a good distance towards hold this dynamic in verify.
Killers of the Flower Moon might be launched in choose cinemas on October 6, 2023 earlier than heading to Apple TV+ on October 20, 2023.