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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – Review by Susan Granger

October 27, 2023September 28, 2025 Susan Granger Apple TV+, David Grann, eric roth, jesse plemons, Killers of the Flower Moon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, martin scorsese, Osage Nation, robert deniro, tantoo cardinal

Master storyteller Martin Scorsese’s harrowing epic Killers of the Flower Moon relates an American true-crime drama, set in the 1920s. Adapted from David Grann’s nonfiction 2017 best seller, the ambitious, solidly structured screenplay by Eric Roth and Scorsese focuses on the ruthless murders of members of the Osage Nation whom the U.S. government forced out of Kansas to relocate on 2,300 acres if barren land in what is now Oklahoma.

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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 Valerie Kalfrin David Grann, eric roth, jesse plemons, Killers of the Flower Moon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, martin scorsese, Osage Nation, Robbie Robertson, robert de niro, Rodrigo Prieto, tantoo cardinal

To the Osage, the flower moon occurs when tiny flowers sprout over the hills in waves of color. Then taller plants pop up among them, stealing their water and sunshine, eventually killing them—the forces that doom them lying among them all along. The film Killers of the Flower Moon doesn’t hammer home the metaphor that author David Grann introduced in his best-selling 2017 book of the same name. But this intricate crime drama about the real-life slayings on the Osage Nation over the inheritance of oil rights gives director Martin Scorsese other allegories. The evil of White supremacy. The poison of greed. The betrayal of native people overall.

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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – Review by Susan Kamyab

October 16, 2023October 19, 2023 Susan Kamyab Killers of the Flower Moon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, martin scorsese, Osage, robert de niro, truth-based

No surprise, Martin Scorsese hands us another triumph. Though the story of bad people murdering innocent ones and later getting caught is a familiar theme for the director, he revives the formula by telling an infuriating piece of non-fiction which reminds us of a heartbreaking American injustice that deserves to be remembered. It’s an important part of history told masterfully through a slightly comedic tone that makes the horrifying truths easier to digest.

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SEA OF SHADOWS – Review by Susan Granger

September 9, 2019 Susan Granger 0 Comments documentaries, endangered species, Leonardo DiCaprio, Richard Ladkani, sea of shadows, vaquita

If you’re like me, you’ve never heard of the vaquita, a small porpoise that lives only in the Sea of Cortez, an area between Baja, California, and mainland Mexico that Jacques Cousteau called “the aquarium of the planet.”