This is an advance review out of the New York Film Festival. The Irishman opens in limited theatrical release on Nov. 1 before debuting on Netflix on Nov. 27.
The most important line in The Irishman doesn’t come from any of its three legendary stars of gangster film yore. It comes from the titular character’s daughter, played by Anna Paquin, late in the film. “Why?” she simply asks her father in a pivotal moment. It’s the actress’ only audible line in the film, and yet, with one word, she cuts through just about every trope the gangster genre has established since the early 1970s, when Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola defined it with classic after classic. She is a heart for the heartless, a soul grandfathered in with the soulless at birth, a glimmer of conscience in a once lawless world.
Source: IGN.com The Irishman Review: Another Scorsese Mob Classic