Dear Cinema.... Love, Scorsese

Rating: 9/10 (12 May 2012)

This is quite possibly the most beautifully made films of the last 10 years. Admittedly, I had reservations about Scorsese being able to do a family film; A well-known and respected director of organized crime films deciding to do a family-friendly film? Sounds a bit too close to Francis Ford Coppola's Jack. I have, subsequently, begged forgiveness for thinking such nonsense.
Every aspect of this movie, from the camera angles to the editing to the acting to the writing, is just another word in Scorsese's 2 hour long love letter to the art of filmmaking, and the entire production sparkles with it. It is heart-warming, it is funny, it is touching, it is intelligent on various levels; in short, it is everything a family film is meant to be, done not only right but brilliantly right at that.
For all those cinephiles out there, both old and new school, I highly recommend you check this movie out.