News — NYFF
Mere mortals have to wait until November 1 to feast their eyes on The Irishman, but plenty of critics have already seen Martin Scorsese’s latest
Their verdict? Across the board, the Netflix film is getting rave reviews and the most surprising thing about those reviews is that not only do critics say the movie is great, it’s funny to boot. In theory, we should expect this movie to be good. On paper, Scorsese directing De Niro, Pacino, Pesci in a film about organized crime sounds incredible. It’s not like this crew lacks experience in mob movies, and tackling the disappearance of Jimmy freakin’ Hoffa is the kind of storyline you’d want this murderer’s row to tackle. What these early reviews are telling us that the...