Synopsis
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
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Cast
- Robert De NiroFrank Sheeran
- Al PacinoJimmy Hoffa
- Joe PesciRussell Bufalino
- Stephen GrahamAnthony 'Tony Pro' Provenzano
- Ray RomanoBill Bufalino
- Harvey KeitelAngelo Bruno
- Bobby Cannavale'Skinny Razor'
- Anna PaquinOlder Peggy Sheeran
- Stephanie KurtzubaIrene Sheeran
- Kathrine NarducciCarrie Bufalino
- 100
Consequence
The Irishman is a remarkable achievement that proves the best may yet to come from one of the most essential American filmmakers to ever live. - 100
The Playlist
The Irishman, which feels like the work of an older, wiser, less flashy filmmaker, is much more preoccupied with the soul of Frank Sheeran and reckoning with his choices. - 100
Variety
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a coldly enthralling, long-form knockout — a majestic Mob epic with ice in its veins. It’s the film that, I think, a lot us wanted to see from Scorsese: a stately, ominous, suck-in-your-breath summing up, not just a drama but a reckoning, a vision of the criminal underworld that’s rippling with echoes of the director’s previous Mob films, but that also takes us someplace bold and new. - 100
IndieWire
The Irishman is alive with Scorsese’s trademark style. - 95
TheWrap
This is a movie that’s rife with characters, with incidents, with ideas, with history, and as such, it will benefit from multiple viewings. But even after the first watch, The Irishman hits hard, and it’s a reminder that nearly 30 years after “GoodFellas,” Martin Scorsese still has fascinating mob tales to tell, and fascinating ways to tell them. - 90
Vanity Fair
I found myself reluctantly taken by the movie, and the way Scorsese uses it to maybe, just a little bit, atone for some of his own past blitheness about violence. In The Irishman, a merry darkness slowly becomes an elegy, ringed with guilt. And what could be more Irish than that? - 80
Time Out
After a while, you adjust, or rather, you get tired of probing the slightly-off evidence of your eyes and the headache it produces. There’s a lot of fun to distract you. - 80
ScreenCrush
The Irishman doesn’t always go by that quickly. But those moments contemplating the end of everything are among the most moving of Scorsese’s career.