The Irishman is a masterpiece. Director Martin Scorsese’s epic drama (which is now streaming on Netflix) chronicles the life of hitman Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) not in stages or montages, but in its entirety. Over the course of three and a half hours, we bear witness to Frank’s burgeoning crime life working with mobster Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci), we follow along as he becomes Jimmy Hoffa’s (Al Pacino) right-hand man, and we’re right there as this life of ego and hubris and violence becomes lost to the sands of time, and all the “tough …
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