Movie Review

Mob movie 'The Irishman' is an instant classic

It’s impossible not to be captured by the brilliance of Martin Scorsese’s Teamster tale

01 December 2019 - 00:00 By and tymon smith

For more than four decades, since the release of Mean Streets in 1973, no US director has worked harder and with more visual bravado than Martin Scorsese to redefine the gangster genre. So it is with no small amount of expectation and plenty of preceding hype that the director's three-and-a-half-hour, $150m (R2.2bn) epic The Irishman arrives on Netflix...

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