“I heard you paint houses.”
In an homage to old gangster films –like Scorsese’s own Goodfellas— TheIrishman plays out like a solemn farewell to the mobster movies of yesteryear. And yet, it is also a forward looking picture with a deliberate embrace of new possibilities, like the decline of old cinemas in favor of the online streaming revolution, the biggest shift in the industry since the rise of talkies –in fact, the film was released on Netflix. With some wonderful acting, editing, score, and directing, in my view one piece of criticism is that TheIrishman is nevertheless a tediously lengthy movie clocking in at nearly four hours. It is a late career reflection upon the passing of time by one of America’s more popular living directors. It comes at a unique moment in the United States with a general widespread dissatisfaction with elites…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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