Silence — IQ Score 163/200

Scorsese's 2016 Shūsaku Endō adaptation about 17th-century Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in Japan. The film he tried to make for 28 years before finally getting backing.

Andrew Garfield's Rodrigues confronts the question Scorsese has been asking since Mean Streets — what does faith owe to the suffering it produces? The fumi-e apostasy sequence is among the most theologically serious dramatic scenes in 21st-century American film.