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16 Years Later, Martin Scorsese’s Genre-Defining Mystery Gets Its Due on Streaming
When Martin Scorsese finally won the Best Director Academy Award for The Departed — ending a decades-long streak of near-misses despite his reputation as the greatest living American filmmaker — the world was his oyster. He could have tried to get one of his many passion projects off the ground; Scorsese had spent years trying to get Silence and The Irishman made. Instead, he spent the years immediately after The Departed making mainstream hits with his muse, Leonardo DiCaprio. The budgets kept increasing, and when The Irishman was eventually made in 2019, it was said to have cost $250 million. However, Scorsese’s immediate follow-up to The Departed was arguably one of the most populist films of his career. The movie in question attracted big stars, some of whom had tiny roles. It’s now streaming for free in the United States, where a new generation of audiences can discover Scorsese’s underappreciated skill as a visual stylist.
The film was released in 2010, four years after The Departed grossed more than $290 million worldwide against a reported budget of $90 million. It reunited Scorsese with DiCaprio, and featured Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson, and Emily Mortimer in supporting roles. The movie also featured some of Hollywood’s quintessential “that guy” character actors, such as Elias Koteas, John Carroll Lynch, and Jackie Earle Haley. It was based on a book by Dennis Lehane, whose earlier work had been adapted into the films Gone Baby Gone and Mystic River.
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Here’s the Martin Scorsese Neo-Noir Thriller That’s Streaming for Free This Month
We’re talking, of course, about Shutter Island. The film served as Scorsese’s tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, complete with an ominous tone and climactic twist that took everyone by surprise. It grossed $295 million worldwide against a reported budget of $80 million. Shutter Island earned mostly positive reviews, and is now sitting at a 69% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The website’s consensus reads, “It may not rank with Scorsese’s best work, but Shutter Island‘s gleefully unapologetic genre thrills represent the director at his most unrestrained.” Scorsese and DiCaprio are set to reunite on another psychological thriller, which recently entered production. The movie is titled What Happens at Night, and will also feature Jennifer Lawrence, Mads Mikkelsen, and Jared Harris. Shutter Island is available to stream for free this month on Pluto TV. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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February 19, 2010
- Runtime
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138 minutes
- Writers
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Laeta Kalogridis, Dennis Lehane