Review of The Irishman (2019) by Richard Lawson for Vanity Fair — 27 Sep 2019
I found myself reluctantly taken by the movie, and the way Scorsese uses it to maybe, just a little bit, atone for some of his own past blitheness about violence. In The Irishman, a merry darkness slowly becomes an elegy, ringed with guilt.
And what could be more Irish than that?
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This review of The Irishman (2019) was written by Richard Lawson and published by Vanity Fair on 27 Sep 2019.
The Irishman has generally received very positive reviews.
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