Joe Pesci (left) and Robert De Niro were digitally de-aged to play younger versions of themselves in Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman." (COURTESY OF NETFLIX)
Joe Pesci (left) and Robert De Niro were digitally de-aged to play younger versions of themselves in Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman." (COURTESY OF NETFLIX)
I know it is blasphemous to say, but Martin Scorsese’s latest film “The Irishman,” his gangster movie reunion with Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci and his first collaboration with Al Pacino, is not a masterpiece. Heck, it wasn’t even the best “Scorsese” film of the year.
Scorsese’s influence was felt in a few high-profile films in 2019, most-notably “Joker,” which blended the tone and style of Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” and “The King of Comedy,” but also “Hustlers,” a “Goodfellas”-esque look into a group of strippers who scammed deep-pocketed Wall Streeters, and “The Kitchen,” a 1978-set crime film that desperately wanted to be a female spin on Scorsese’s gangster formula.
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