Our take
Considering the legacy of its title subject, the Mr. Scorsese limited series should frankly be longer than five episodes. That’s our only complaint about the show, really. This five-part documentary does a wonderful job balancing between talking about the auteur’s life and work and the way both affected each other. Fans may already know about his Italian-American neighborhood influencing his interest in the gangster drama, or his asthma that kept him going to the air-conditioned cinema. Director Rebecca Miller simply arranges what we know into a cohesive, insightful narrative, and finds all the reasons why there could never be another Scorsese.
What it won
DGA
1 win
The story
Explore the many lives of Martin Scorsese through intimate interviews with the man himself, access to his private archives, plus conversations with Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Steven Spielberg, and more.
Elsewhere
"Mr. Scorsese is an eye-opening and deeply moving viewing experience, one that had me crying within the first three minutes of the premiere episode. It is also, at a run time of 287 minutes, not nearly enough. Not! Nearly! Enough!"
— Roxana Hadadi
"It’s a little annoying that an episodic series (that’s nicely broken into episodic arcs) chooses to exclude all of Scorsese’s TV work. But “Mr. Scorsese’s” entertainment value is without question."
— Ben Travers
The details
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Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
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Number One on the Call Sheet
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Andrew Rossi
Raël: The Alien Prophet
Antoine Baldassari & Manuel Guillon
Who picked it
Isabella Endrinal is a curator at A Good Movie to Watch. She's now free from the corporate night shift. Previous articles have been published in outlets such as NANG Magazine. She's currently catching up on some classic films… if she isn't coping with the fact that the Haikyu anime will end soon.
