The Departed Reviews

Movie Reviews

• The Departed is slick, funny, brutal and entertaining

  by David Mercier [FilmJudge ]

• the best effort Scorsese has brought to the screen since Goodfellas

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• puts Scorsese himself back on the right path

  by Bruce Newman [San Jose Mercury News ]

• pulses with energy, tangy dialogue and crackling performances from a fine cast

  by Todd McCarthy [Variety ]

• A relentlessly violent, breathtakingly assured piece of mean-streets filmmaking

  by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]

• a regrettably uneven addition to the director's canon

  by Tim Knight [Reel ]

• a masterpiece all its own

  by Rich Cline [Shadows on the Wall ]

• a ferociously entertaining film

  by Kirk Honeycutt [The Hollywood Reporter ]
• Review rate : A Reviewed by Michael Sragow [The Baltimore Sun ]
• Review rate : A- Reviewed by Clayton Davis [The Cinema Source ]
• Review rate : A- Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]
• Reviewed by Ed Blank [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ]
• Reviewed by Duane Dudek [The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ]
• Reviewed by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune ]
• Reviewed by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine ]
• Reviewed by Andrea Chase [Killer Movie Reviews ]
• Reviewed by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch ]
• Reviewed by John Thomason [Orlando Weekly ]
• Reviewed by David Edwards [London Daily Mirror ]
• Reviewed by Barbara Vancheri [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ]
• Reviewed by Kenneth Turan [Los Angeles Times ]
• Reviewed by Gerry Shamray [Sun Newspapers of Cleveland ]

Reader's Reviews

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