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Black Mass
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Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Julianne Nicholson, Dakota Johnson View AllCrew
Jez Butterworth (Screenplay), Scott Cooper (Director), Mark Mallouk (Screenplay) View All
Release: Sep. 4th, 2015
Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes
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Griffiths The Musketeers of Pig Alley, to the gangster flicks of the 30s with Little Caeser and Scarface, to the film Noirs of the 40s and 50s, Bonnie & Clyde, Coppolas The Godfather, to the various works of Scorsese; Hollywood has made a lot of movies involving crime.

When 'Black Mass' begins to feel deadly dull or slowly becomes a bland black mass that flows out to all sides, it is great that you have characters with a criminal record like Bulger, to pull the film out of the darkness and into the limelight with Johnny Depp in the lead.

Actors like Jesse Plemons and Rory Cochrane get somewhat thankless roles as Bulger's associates Kevin Weeks and Steve Flemmi respectively, while Stoll stands out as an incredibly flat character if only because his right-minded attorney isintroduced late in the film with no other characteristics othe....