Two years ago, Martin Scorsese wrote an op-ed for a The Hollywood Reporter in which he slammed critic aggregators like Rotten Tomatoes for rating movies "the way you’d rate a horse at the racetrack, a restaurant in a Zagat’s guide, or a household appliance in Consumer Reports." He’s not alone—the Tomatometer has more than its share of critics in the movie industry. But there’s a chance that Scorsese could be feeling just a little more positively disposed towards the review site today, because with 41 reviews in as of Saturday, his new film, The Irishman, has a perfect 100 percent score.

In his review for Esquire, Chris Nashawaty wrote that The Irishman finds Scorsese still “operating at the peak of his powers,” and that while the film is not quite a masterpiece, “it doesn’t miss it by much.” Variety’s Owen Gleiberman called it the movie "a lot us wanted to see from Scorsese: a stately, ominous, suck-in-your-breath summing up, not just a drama but a reckoning, a vision of the criminal underworld that’s rippling with echoes of the director’s previous Mob films, but that also takes us someplace bold and new." And The New York Times’ A.O. Scott wrote that while the film contains "plenty of grisly, crazy mob lore, blood and tomato sauce, guys with colorful nicknames," it’s "part of a deeper, sadder lesson that has to do with the inevitability of loss."

The film will be released in select theaters on November 1st, ahead of its debut on Netflix on the 27th. Netflix reportedly struggled to find theaters willing to devote screens to a film that millions would be able to watch from the comfort of their couches just weeks later, but reviews this glowing are likely to make at least some movie buffs feel certain that the film is worth taking in on the big screen.

Gabrielle Bruney Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture.

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