Black Mass – 7.5

For all the reasons I usually dislike movies “based on true events,” I ate up the story of Boston crime boss “Whitey” Bulger. I knew the name and vague outlines of his story, but this film filled in the details. I have a particular, if distant, affection for the streets of Boston from The Departed and stories of Dennis Lehane, and the Bulger brothers played by the unlikely duo of Johnny Depp and Benedict Cumberbatch fit right in. Joel Edgerton’s agent John Connolly is the fulcrum of the plot, but it is the intense, controlling persona portrayed by Depp that makes the film, whether true or not, memorable.

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