Anthony Lane reviews Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” an epic drama about the Osage murders, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone.
Written by Scorsese and Eric Roth, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is adapted from the nonfiction book of the same title by David Grann, a staff writer at this magazine. Grann explores the quest for oil under Osage country, in Oklahoma, in the springtime of the twentieth century, and the auctions at which leases for drilling were purchased from Osage landowners. In 1920, one reporter, describing the newfound Osage wealth, proclaimed, “Something will have to be done about it.
That’s why his best and his most believable performance was back in 2002, in “Catch Me if You Can,” directed by Steven Spielberg, whose casting eye is unrivalled, and who spied the essential lightness in DiCaprio. Scorsese, on the other hand, has strained to drag him into the dark. If their happiest collaboration is in “The Wolf of Wall Street” , it is because, for once, the actor’s puckish vagaries are not reined in. Scorsese loosens the leash.
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