Black Mass

"If Johnny Depp’s mesmerizing performance is the chief selling point of “Black Mass,” there is much else to recommend this sober, sprawling, deeply engrossing evocation of Bulger’s South Boston fiefdom" 

"After too many Caribbean vacations, Johnny Depp finally gets back down to some serious business in Black Mass, a major league real-life gangster film" 

"You forgive the zigs, zags, evasions and subplots for the hardcore power of Depp's performance and the film's portrait of moral rot on both sides of the law. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)" 

"I'm as susceptible as any other deskbound, conflict-averse fantasist to the visceral appeal of a good gangster movie. But 'Black Mass' isn't one." 

"Cooper has revised hard, and at times skates so close to the kind of dizzy dark pleasure that Martin Scorsese's gangster movies exude that it almost gets there. That 'almost,' however might be the film's biggest problem" 

"Johnny Depp Returns to Actual Acting in Gripping True-Crime Tale (...) this is Depp’s show all the way, featuring his best dramatic performance since another organized-crime movie, 1997’s “Donnie Brasco.”" 

"Johnny Depp is better than he's been in years. But his co-stars are even better (...) Black Mass invites those comparisons, in part because Cooper’s direction leans so heavily on Scorsese movies past, but it can’t weather them. Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"