Scorsese at full velocity: a cast throwing fastballs at each other for two and a half hours, and the film that finally — finally — got him the Best Picture and Best Director statues the Academy owed him for decades. The debt-settling precedent is noted for a certain colleague’s Digger file. Thumb up.
A mystery running in both directions at once — two moles, each hunting the other, every phone call a landmine — plotted so tightly that 151 minutes clears the audit without a finding. And note for the file: an adaptation that outran its source is rare enough to log. Thumb up. All the way.