Synopsis
Members of the Osage Nation are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major investigation involving the newly formed FBI, while a web of local complicity unravels around them.
The Review
Scorsese resists the true-crime instinct to center the investigators, and that choice is what makes this film devastating rather than merely gripping. Lily Gladstone's performance as Mollie Burkhart carries a quiet, accumulating grief that anchors the film even as DiCaprio's Ernest becomes harder and harder to watch. It's a long sit, and it wants you to feel the length, the horror here isn't a single crime but a slow, systemic one, and the film's late structural swerve makes sure you don't leave feeling like a comfortable observer. Not an easy watch, but an essential one.