Scorsese 1990s · Ranked
Best Scorsese Films of the 1990s, Ranked by IQ Score
The decade Scorsese's mature middle-career peaked. Every 1990s Scorsese film, ranked.
The 1990s is the decade Martin Scorsese's mature middle-career peaked. Goodfellas (1990) is widely cited as the canonical Scorsese gangster epic. The Age of Innocence (1993), Casino (1995), Cape Fear (1991), Bringing Out the Dead (1999) round out the decade.
Anchor picks: Goodfellas, the canonical Scorsese-De Niro-Pesci mob-epic. The Age of Innocence, Scorsese's most-disciplined non-gangster work and the film he repeatedly cited as his most-violent. Casino, Scorsese's most-formally-ambitious-late-period gangster epic.
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Questions about this ranking
What is the best Scorsese film of the 1990s?
By IQ Score on TV Intelligentsia, Goodfellas (1990) anchors the decade. The Age of Innocence (1993), Casino (1995), and Cape Fear (1991) round out the canonical entries.
Why does The Age of Innocence rank so highly?
The Age of Innocence (Scorsese, 1993) is the catalog's most-disciplined non-gangster work. Scorsese repeatedly cited it as his most-violent film, because Gilded Age New York high society used social-exclusion mechanics rather than guns. The film operates at canonical-Edith-Wharton-adaptation register.
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