Human Weakness in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

When the great Martin Scorsese makes a movie—or as he calls it, a picture—it is safe to assume it will be of epic proportions. His latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon, certainly fits that description, and its length (3 hours and 25 minutes) is only a small part of what makes it so.

Based on an eponymous 2017 non-fiction book by David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon tells the true story of William K. Hale (Robert De Niro), a wealthy Oklahoma rancher; Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), Hale’s nephew; and Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone), an Osage woman who marries Ernest.

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