With the Barbenheimer phenomenon, new movies from masters like Martin Scorsese and Hayao Miyazaki, and less reliance on comic book IP, movies were back in the cultural conversation for the first time since Avengers: Endgame. It didn’t hurt that you could craft a top 20 as strong as most year’s top tens, either.
In contrast with director Martin Scorsese’s last two gangster epics, Casino and Goodfellas, The Irishman is director Martin Scorsese’s first effort in the trilogy without the aid of non-fiction crime author Nicholas Pileggi. Pileggi, the scribe of the books and screenplays behind Casino and Goodfellas, was replaced by author Charles Brandt and veteran screenwriter Steve Zaillian. Zaillian’s script is masterful, but the heavily disputed source material raises questions that The Irishman declines to ask.
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