Scorsese's <em>Silence</em> and Batman: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing

Martin Scorsese’s Strained Silence
Anthony Lane | The New Yorker
“Is Scorsese the man for the interior? Is Silence fit to stand beside Robert Bresson’s Diary of, or Bergman’s ? It remains to be seen whether moviegoers who thrilled to the kinetic flourishes of and will tolerate, or even recognize, a Scorsese hero who refuses to strike back. The agon of the central character, self-besieged or plagued by circumstance, runs through the history of the director’s films, as does the suspicion that man’s brutality to man may have a penitential purpose.”