Killers of the Flower Moon certified Fresh with high Rotten Tomatoes rating
Killers of the Flower Moon has been certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with an impressive score.
The latest film from Martin Scorsese tells the true story of the Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation in the 1920s, which saw many members of the Osage tribe mysteriously die after oil was discovered on their land.
The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Ernest Burkhart, Lily Gladstone as his wife Mollie, and Robert De Niro as Ernest's uncle William King Hale.
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Following critics' reviews, Killers of the Flower Moon has earned a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, marking it as DiCaprio's second-highest-rated movie behind Catch Me If You Can.
Some reviewers have praised it as among Scorsese's best, with many noting Gladstone's performance as a highlight of the movie.
Here's what critics have been saying:
Evening Standard
"It looks beautiful, features a wealth of great performances and tells a tale that needed to be told, very well indeed. It is – genuinely – his best since The Wolf of Wall Street. Not a line that would make it on to those posters, perhaps, but impressive nonetheless."
Empire
"A piece of work as strong and sharp and vivid as anything in [Scorsese's] remarkable career, and perhaps one he could have made only now. How many octogenarians can honestly claim to still be working at the peak of their powers, as he so evidently is?"
The Independent
"It's Gladstone who provides the film's centre of gravity. She gives one of the most extraordinary performances by a woman in any of Scorsese's movies."
The Hollywood Reporter
"This is a sprawling, densely plotted work that demands a lot of its audience. But the three-and-a-half-hour running time is fully justified in an escalating tragedy that never loosens its grip – a sordid illustration of historical erasure with echoes in today's bitterly divisive political gamesmanship."
The Daily Telegraph
"The action enthrals like a slow-crackling campfire, with regular jolts of dark humour and graphic violence to splash petrol on the blaze. And as that epilogue playfully reminds us, we're crouched right down there too, beside Ernest, Hale, and every other Scorsese character like them, as our eyes and souls are drawn back time and again to the flames."
Little White Lies
"History is often just grist to the mill of mass entertainment, framing the stories that we have just seen as merely dust in the wind. This is on first impression perhaps a very good, uneven film rather than an unequivocally great one."
Killers of the Flower Moon will be released in cinemas on Friday, October 20.
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