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Departed, The (2006) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Departed, The (2006) a score of 3.4859 out of 4

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Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)

Word on the street had it that The Departed is the best thing Scorsese has done since Goodfellas, and now having seen it, that seems about right. In fact, this is Scorsese at the top of his gritty, unsentimental game, crafting a crime thriller both epic a...read the complete Departed, The (2006) review at Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)

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Comingsoon.net

To rave about Martin Scorsese's return to crime drama without mentioning its source material, Andrew Lau and Andy Mak's Hong Kong based "Infernal Affairs," would be a worse crime than anything in the movie; most of the best ideas and scenes come straight ...read the complete Departed, The (2006) review at Comingsoon.net

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Village Voice (J. Hoberman)

Neither a debacle nor a bore, The Departed works but only up to a point, and never emotionally--even if the director does contrive to supply his version of a happy ending....read the complete Departed, The (2006) review at Village Voice (J. Hoberman)