The Departed (2006)
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
1 July 1964, Stuttgart, Germany
12 October 1971, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
3 April 1958, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
11 February 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 January 1967, USA
8 January 1932, Britton, Oklahoma, USA
8 October 1970, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
12 February 1963, Seattle, Washington, USA
24 July 1967, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
30 November 1947, Bronx, New York, USA
19 February 1957, Hackney, London, England, UK
23 June 1970, Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
27 March 1969, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
14 October 1970, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
January 25, 2015
The Departed is an example of a cinematic master seeking to live up to the veneration with which he is regarded by his pupils.
January 25, 2015
This crime thriller is a profane, blood-drenched joy to watch.
January 06, 2007
The Departed has enough tension to keep you engrossed, and enough color for ten crime pictures. Scorsese obviously adores his expensive, expansive ensemble.
January 25, 2015
The dialogue crackles wittily and obscenely, and the set-pieces are superbly staged.
March 16, 2017
The definitive Boston Irish mob movie of our era was made by an Italian from Queens.
January 25, 2015
Not only is The Departed not among the best of Scorsese's films; it's not even the best version of this film.
February 24, 2013
[A] very entertaining, densely layered, just-short-of-fabulous melodrama.
February 23, 2016
The legendary director successfully converts a tight little thriller into a grand opera, and it's the best work he's done in the last 10 years.
January 25, 2015
As in his remake of Cape Fear, Scorsese has mucked up a B-movie he professes to love: producing something full of twists but devoid of that lovely, fluttery, rare thing: surprise.
February 03, 2007
You'll have to go back to GoodFellas to find a Marty movie this fun, this enamored of language, of ethnic slurs, of "Gimme Shelter," of explosive violence. Scorsese's return to form is the year's most dynamic film. Really, how could it not be?
January 25, 2015
This has its moments - what Scorsese film does not? -- but over a two-and-a-half-hour stretch it huffs and puffs and still doesn't blow the house down.
July 06, 2007
What makes this a Scorsese film, and not merely a retread, is the director's use of actors, locations and energy, and its buried theme. I am fond of saying that a movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it.
