The Irishman (2019)Movies

I like a good, long, juicy movie, so when I heard Martin Scorsese's The Irishman ran three-and-a-half hours, I sure knew it was long. What I didn’t know is whether it was good or juicy. The answer is that it's good—very, very good—but it's not really juicy. You can't just sink into it the way a great epic allows you to sink in and get yourself taken on a transporting journey. Director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Steven Zaillian cast a cold, analytical eye on the story they tell about the Philadelphia mob, the Teamsters, and the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa even as they re-create the America of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1990s in the most loving and luscious ways. If you could eat art direction, The Irishman would be like dining at Peter Luger's in the old days. Still,...