Reviews for Killers of the Flower Moon
Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press:
William Hale ([Robert] De Niro) is a cattle rancher but more like a king around these parts — indeed, King’s his nickname — a white man who speaks the Osage language and calls himself their best friend.
Peering out of wireframe glasses, he imbues the character with a repulsive righteousness that is mesmerising to watch.
De Niro is brutally effective here, dooming a life with a single eyebrow twitch.
De Niro is magnificently unsettling in the film — it might be the best work he’s done with [Martin] Scorsese since Goodfellas.
De Niro, freed from all of the digital de-aging technology that occasionally became a distraction in Scorsese’s otherwise sensational The Irishman, gives one of his best performances in years; full of oily charm, underplayed menace, and surprisingly hilarious dark humor.
[Leonardo] DiCaprio and De Niro’s one-on-one scenes together, it should be said, make you bemoan the fact that it’s taken them this long to follow up on their This Boy’s Life rapport.