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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A great, resonant, psychologically complex popcorn movie made by a cast and crew of filmmakers at the top of their game. Welcome back, Marty. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: After the dolled-up theatrics of his last few features, from Casino (1995) up through The Aviator (2004), it's a kick to find director Martin Scorsese back in prime form, at least in the terrific first half of The Departed. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Too operatic at times, too in love with violence and macho posturing at others, it's a potboiler dressed up in upscale designer clothes, but oh how that pot does boil. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The Departed is Scorsese's most entertaining picture in years, dense, violent (more of his screen sadism played for laughs), and satisfying. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Freed from iconic figures and weighty themes, Martin Scorsese, in The Departed, gets to riff and rock. And the audience gets a huge, bloody, profane entertainment in the bargain. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Scorsese's sharpest film in a decade and the most entertaining major studio release this year. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Mr. Scorsese and his associates have assembled a remarkably charismatic cast to impart coherence and conviction to a narrative that could have easily dwindled into an affectless succession of gratuitous intrigues. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: That Scorsese can hit this kind of material out of the park isn't surprising, and much of The Departed gleams with a certain well-honed perfection. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: As The Departed wears on, it becomes more exciting, more grimly funny and more nihilistic -- and that nihilism has a lasting impact. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Dazzlingly done, with a welcome gloss of comic panache, it's the sort of thing Scorsese does better than any other major director in Hollywood. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Right from the pungent opening line, The Departed has that Goodfellas pop, from the first-rate cast to the sharp black comedy to the startling incidents of violence. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: It took a while, but Martin Scorsese has returned to the Mean Streets. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A relentlessly violent, breathtakingly assured piece of mean-streets filmmaking, the film shows the legendary director dropping the bids for industry respectability that have preoccupied him over the past decade and doing what he does best. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: With its welter of double crosses, The Departed is completely engrossing, a master class in suspense. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: For all its bloodletting, The Departed is an intoxicating film. It's a film that'll have your hands over your face with one eye peeking: The violence sickens, but the movie seduces. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: The veteran director has made two-thirds of a great film about Boston cops and mobsters, with dazzlingly rich performances from a dizzyingly stellar cast and an ambience that screams Scorsese's typical cultural authenticity. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Comparisons to Goodfellas and Casino notwithstanding, it has a verve and texture all its own. It also has, courtesy of William Monahan, some of the best dialogue that Scorsese has ever worked with. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: The Departed exhibits a rough-hewn, deft intelligence. Monahan has written some razor-sharp lines, and Scorsese's latest crew knows how to wield the quips. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: If this one doesn't win Scorsese an Oscar, then there's something seriously wrong with Oscar. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The argot of New York's Little Italy is Martin Scorsese's first language, but the filmmaker speaks fluent, pungent Bostonese in the terrific cops-and-mobsters tale The Departed. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It's a thinking fan's thriller, a movie involving multiple fully dimensional characters, multiple story lines and edge-of-your-seat twists and swerves, stylized to just the edge of believability. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Rude, crafty, funny and richly profane, it's the work of an artist unmistakably in his element. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: An exhilarating pulp entertainment. Read more
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: Is Scorsese desperate? This screenplay has the scent of it, as if he is scraping for material to feed his basic filmic interests. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: The Departed, which situates the Lau-Mak storyline in contemporary Boston, matches expectations for roughly two-thirds of its somewhat distended 2 1/2-hour running time. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: This merrily vicious and violent Martin Scorsese film about cops and gangsters in Boston will never haunt your sleep, as Taxi Driver and Raging Bull do, but it will keep you excited and amused for well over two hours. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The Departed has enough tension to keep you engrossed, and enough color for ten crime pictures. Scorsese obviously adores his expensive, expansive ensemble. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The Departed remains a rousing film. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: After a pair of flawed Oscar-hunting epics, Martin Scorsese has returned to the gritty, violent mob drama that has always been his strong suit, and the result -- The Departed -- is his best film since 1990's Goodfellas. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Martin Scorsese's cubistic entertainment about men divided by power, loyalty and their own selves finds the director back on the mean streets where he belongs. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The original film was gritty and entertaining; the new version is a masterpiece -- the best effort Scorsese has brought to the screen since Goodfellas. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What makes this a Scorsese film, and not merely a retread, is the director's use of actors, locations and energy, and its buried theme. I am fond of saying that a movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: A new American crime classic from the legendary Martin Scorsese, whose talent shines here on its highest beams. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Scorsese has put together a fantastic ensemble of actors: Some of the movie's best performances are the ones tucked into the corners, like Alec Baldwin's beefy, arrogant state police honcho. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: It's a stylish head rush of a movie that flies by, even at two-and-a-half hours, and keeps turning the knife (and your stomach) up to the final scene. Read more
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: It is funny, shocking and brutal, and it's filled with brilliant performances, with some of our best actors sinking their teeth into a great screenplay from William Monahan. Read more
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic: Not only is The Departed not among the best of Scorsese's films; it's not even the best version of this film. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: As so often before, the body count is high in a Martin Scorsese movie. But where once the bodies pulsated with life in all its vainglorious furor, here they drop like wooden ducks in an artificial pond. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: [A] glorious mess of a movie. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: [A] very entertaining, densely layered, just-short-of-fabulous melodrama. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: Few directors can compose a movie with the power, grace and assurance that Scorsese brings to each shot and scene, and The Departed is more fun, and certainly more funny, than his last few films. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: You'll have to go back to GoodFellas to find a Marty movie this fun, this enamored of language, of ethnic slurs, of "Gimme Shelter," of explosive violence. Scorsese's return to form is the year's most dynamic film. Really, how could it not be? Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Two and a half hours race by as this twisting, turning tale blazes its exciting, funny, brutal path. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: This reworking of a popular Hong Kong picture pulses with energy, tangy dialogue and crackling performances from a fine cast. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Neither a debacle nor a bore, The Departed works but only up to a point, and never emotionally. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The Departed, which screenwriter William Monahan cleverly adapted from the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs, crackles right along, stopping only long enough for Scorsese's signature bursts of explosive violence. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Martin Scorsese's The Departed, a crime drama of thrilling breadth and intensity, takes place within Boston's city limits, seems to have been made in a state of exultation, and holds you captive in a state of delight. Read more