Storyline
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Directors
Cast
Corey Stoll, Adam Scott, Johnny Depp, Jesse Plemons, Mary Klug, David Conley, Tom Kemp, Jeremy Strong, Juno Temple, Kevin Bacon, Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Sarsgaard, Luke Ryan, Julianne Nicholson, Erica McDermott, Sean Malone, Anthony Molinari, David Harbour, Joel Edgerton, Dakota Johnson, Bates Wilder, W. Earl Brown, James Russo, Lonnie Farmer, Owen Burke, Gary Galone, Brian A. White, Rory Cochrane, Bill Camp, Scott G. Anderson, David De Beck, Bretton Manley, Jamie Donnelly, Declan Mulvey, Berglind Jonsdottir, Patrick M. Walsh, Robert Walsh, Mark Mahoney, Brad Carter, Lewis D. Wheeler, Billy Meleady, Danae Nason, Ciaran Crawford, Thomas Philip O'Neill, Joey Vacchio, Bill Haims, Todd Ryan Jones, Marc Carver, Richard Donelly, Peter Morse, Naheem Garcia, Kathryn A. Beauchamp, Stephen Curran, Darin X.L. MacEachern, Cary 'Big Shug' Guy, Jack Neary, Jimmy Joe Maher, Forry Buckingham, Danny DeMiller, Michael F. Murphy, Alexander Cook, Ava Cooper, Stella Cooper, Amanda Blattner, Julie Ann Dawson
Trailer
Reviews
90
If Johnny Depp’s mesmerizing performance — a bracing return to form for the star after a series of critical and commercial misfires — 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 and his complex relationship with the FBI agent John Connolly, played with equally impressive skill by Joel Edgerton.
88
This is Depp’s show all the way, featuring his best dramatic performance since another organized-crime movie, 1997’s “Donnie Brasco.”
80
Scott Cooper’s Black Mass is a big, brash, horribly watchable gangster picture taken from an extraordinary true story and conceived on familiar generic lines.
80
Johnny Depp’s broodingly psychotic turn as convicted Boston crime lord James ‘Whitey’ Bulger is not the only tasty thing about Scott Cooper’s tale of the unholy alliance between a South Boston Irish mobster and the FBI.
70
Depp's instinct for observing, underlaying and keeping things in, then letting it all out when required, pays big dividends here in a performance far more convincing than his previous big gangster role, John Dillinger in Michael Mann's Public Enemies; it's unexpected, very welcome at this point in his career, and one of his best.
