Scorsese was divinely inspired in finding and casting Lily Gladstone, who is now my frontrunner for Best Actress next year. It gives the sense of being his last encore, although I'm sure that's not actually true. This is perhaps Leonardo's best ever work, and de Niro was perfect as ever. Some truly masterful use of obfuscating the motives and inner world of the characters to leave the audience with some ambiguity throughout, only to crystallize into a very sharp moral…
