Scorsese's ponderous Killers of the Flower Moon packs a surprisingly powerful punch.

While not one of Scorsese's best, Killers of the Flower Moon is worth watching to grasp the twisted ways white persons swindled the Osage, and for the Osage Nation's elegant, masterful response.

Killers of the Flower Moon retells an essential story of how the dispossessed Osage Nation accrued uncommon “good luck” in being relocated from their Missouri and Arkansas ancestral homelands to a resource-rich section of northeast Oklahoma Indian Territory known today as Osage County. At first, you’d think this historical epic is some Tarantino-esque …