See Silence, Please: On Scorsese’s New Masterwork

SilenceDirected by Martin ScorseseOpens December 23
A masterwork set during the confrontational age of discovery, Martin Scorsese’s searching Silence—the 24th narrative feature by that high priest of American cinema—speaks volumes about the twin gauntlets of cultural and spiritual discord. The film, a passion-project adaptation of a 1966 historical novel by Japanese author Shūsaku Endō, begins as a mystery, before pushing into more interior terrain altogether. Two Po