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Given the title of the film and tone of the trailer, I was expecting something a bit more sinister from Black Mass, the story of Irish-American mobster Whitey Bulger’s “unholy alliance” with the FBI during the 1970s. Instead, the film ends up feeling like a cover version of previous crime dramas, with only a few moments that truly unsettle.

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Variety

Depp does career-best work as notorious Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger in Scott Cooper's taut, elegantly understated crime drama.

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Time Out

Depp is more engaging than he's been in years, even if his performance can feel a little restricted and one-note.

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The New York Times

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.

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The Guardian

A big, brash, horribly watchable gangster picture taken from an extraordinary true story and conceived on familiar generic lines.

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SBS

The steady flow of sour deals, minor slights avenged, and prostitutes that require beating to death begin to wear on one's attention.

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Los Angeles Times

A bleak, claustrophobic based-on-fact film that draws us completely into a dark world of crime and complicity.

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Hollywood Reporter

Depp shines in a solid gangster biopic.

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Watch Black Mass 2015 in Australia

Released: 2015

Updated: 5th Dec, 2022

Rated: R

Director: Scott Cooper

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What is Black Mass about?

Based on a true story of James "Whitey" Bulger, an Irish Mob godfather and FBI informant who had a "secret trading" deal with his brother, William "Billy" Bulger, a state senator and a Boston public figure, and John Connolly, an FBI agent. They planned to take down the Italian mob and mafia in Boston, which went awry and things turned massively violent. When the credence for each other began fading out, drug dealing, murders, and extortion started to rise, and forced the FBI's Boston office to confirm that Whitey Bulger was one of the most notorious criminals in US history and also one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List criminals.

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