Why Killers Of The Flower Moon Is Rated R

Martin Scorsese is back in the director’s chair with Killers of the Flower Moon, and it’s been given an R rating from the Motion Picture Association. The film, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, and Robert De Niro, follows the Osage Nation murders in 1920s Oklahoma. Scorsese is no stranger to R rated films, and his own filmography — from The Wolf of Wall Street to Silence and The Irishman — has multiple instances of being given the R rating, though it’s usually for different reasons.