8 Martin Scorsese Movies You Slept On, Ranked by How Hard You Slept

Everybody's seen Goodfellas. These eight have strong scores and a fraction of the IMDb votes. Counting down from mildly slept on to criminally ignored.

Number one beats Goodfellas. You'll disagree. You'll be wrong.

1. 8
   Casino (1995)7.5

   Casino is Goodfellas with better outfits, and nobody admits it.

   An 8.2 on IMDb with 630,267 votes. Sharon Stone and Don Rickles in the same casino. That B− CinemaScore was opening weekend being wrong.
2. 7
   Gangs of New York (2002)6.9

   Day-Lewis is the whole movie. Everything else is scenery.

   A 6.9 movie.guru score on a reported $97 to 100M budget, with 512,053 IMDb votes. You remember one performance and zero plot points. That's the problem and the reason.
3. 6
   The Aviator (2004)7.6

   Leo's most underrated Scorsese performance, full stop.

   $213.7M worldwide on a reported $110M budget and a 7.6 score, yet it's the Leo and Scorsese movie people forget exists. Cate Blanchett steals every scene she's in.
4. 5
   Cape Fear (1991)6.9

   De Niro's scariest role lives in Scorsese's cheesiest movie.

   Fewest IMDb votes here at 251,382. A 6.9 score because it goes full B-movie by the end. $182.3M worldwide on a reported $35M says nobody minded.
5. 4
   Hugo (2011)7.9

   Scorsese made a family movie and it's legit great.

   93% on Rotten Tomatoes and an 83 Metacritic. Then a reported $150 to 170M budget against $185.8M worldwide. Box office isn't profit, and that math is rough.
6. 3
   Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)8.6

   Lily Gladstone is the reason this works, not the legends.

   An 8.6 score and an 89 Metacritic, with only 315,419 IMDb votes. The story is real and heavy, and the reported $200 to 215M budget shows in every frame.
7. 2
   Raging Bull (1980)9.4

   A 9.4 that fewer people rated than Gangs of New York.

   415,578 IMDb votes versus Gangs' 512,053. It made $23.3M domestic in 1980. Highest score on this list, and people still treat it like homework.
8. 1
   The Irishman (2019)9.3

   The Irishman is better than Goodfellas. Not taking it back.

   A 9.3 score, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, 94 Metacritic. It grossed $968,853 worldwide because Netflix, so you watched it in three sittings and blamed the movie.

$827 says someone types 'Goodfellas though' before they even scroll to number one.

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