Robert Butler’s review published on Letterboxd:
Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” is truly a triumphant work of ambition and grandeur, and not just because of its groundbreaking de-aging digital effects that transform its older lead actors back into much younger looking men. While that has been the main spotlight of the films notoriety, as well as being an enormously expensive project that exceeded 140 million dollars–which is unorthodox for any project nowadays that isn’t a superhero movie, Scorsese’s latest ambitious endeavor ended up being financed and distributed by Netflix instead of by any major Hollywood studio. What makes “The Irishman” truly an extraordinary accomplishment is its melancholic meditation and muted expedition on the isolation of what organized crime ultimately leaves on the individual.
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