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Is Killers of the Flower Moon worth the runtime?


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With DiCaprio and De Niro in fine gurning form and Thelma Schoonmaker on the edit, the gang’s back together for Martin Scorsese’s brand new film. But is it worth the 3hr26m runtime?

References
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (the book the film is based on)
Interview with Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone for Critqal
Martin Scorsese’s companion films list on Letterboxd

Films and TV shows about indigenous communities we recommended:
Dances with Wolves (1990) dir. by Kevin Costner 
Smoke Signals (1998) dir. by Chris Eyre
Reservation Dogs (2021-2023) created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi
Call Me Human (2020) dir. by Kim O'Bomsawin

For more, read Corinne Rice’s ‘8 Essential Films of the Native American Experience’

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