

Ernest’s uncle, William Hale (Robert De Niro), is a local businessman deeply involved in exploiting the Osage people for as much of their money as he can in a variety of nefarious ways, and Ernest and Mollie are very much a part of his orbit. Set in Oklahoma in the 1920s, the film follows a white man, Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), who marries an Osage woman, Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), who is wealthy from oil money.

It’s electrifying to see a filmmaker of Scorsese’s age and stature make a picture that burns this hot in examining its own POV, grappling with the complexities and limits of its own perspective.

Since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of the nonfiction book “Killers of the Flower Moon” has been one of the most anticipated and discussed movies of the year.
