'The Irishman' review: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci revisit the tyranny of the mob … and keep getting younger and younger
In "The Irishman," Martin Scorsese's grand, droll, ruminative valediction to the gangster genre he has done so much to expand since "Mean Streets" (1973), the story of Teamsters lifer and murder-for-hire hitman Frank Sheeran rests on a 1975 road trip two couples, the Sheerans and the Bufalinos of the Bufalino Pennsylvania crime family, once took together, driving west to Detroit for a politically obligatory wedding, with some business to be conducted along the way.
The movie is about that business, and how it haunts a man to the end of his days.
In the wedding spirit, Scorsese and his screenwriter, Steven Zaillian, offer something old, something new, something borrowed and, in
