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Killers Of The Flower Moon review: Scorsese’s new masterpiece will keep you utterly compelled

Take Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in Rain Man, or Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster in The Silence Of The Lambs.

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Robert De Niro plays William Hale, a man involved in a cruel plot against the incredibly wealthy Native American Osage peopleCredit: Alamy

These acting relationships have so much chemistry and spark, it’s hard to fathom that the words they speak are originally from a script.

This is what you get every time Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro share the screen in Martin Scorsese’s ambitious adaptation of David Grann’s non-fiction book of the same name.

Utterly compelled

The two are sent straight from the acting gods, and their scenes are so finely crafted you want to hold your breath in case of distractions.

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The epic three-hour, 26-minute film is the true story of the 1920s slaughter of the Native American Osage people, who lived on one of the richest oil deposits in the country.

They had been forced to move there by the US government, who thought the land was useless.

But when it turned out to have oil, it made the families multi-millionaires.

And where there is lashings of money, there’s also plenty of people who want to steal it.

One of them is William Hale (De Niro), who realised that if white men married the Osage women, and those women then died, the money would come into the hands of the husband and their blood line.

And so starts his painfully cruel and vicious attack on the neighbours that trusted him, resulting in the murders of more than 60 of the tribe.

Hale, who likes to be called “King” by locals, brings in his easily manipulated nephew Ernest (DiCaprio).

Ernest has returned home from World War One, ready to be a good soldier for a new cause.

He meets Mollie (Lily Gladstone) — one of four daughters from one of the richest families on the land.

The two marry just before Mollie’s family — and other members of the Osage population — are killed one after another.

Mollie then starts to suffer from a “wasting disease”.

But her relationship with Ernest isn’t just one of victim and killer — it’s far more intriguing and layered than that.

Trying to understand the love between them keeps you utterly compelled during this Scorsese masterpiece.

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