"Nobody makes a crime drama quite like Martin Scorsese, and The Departed (2006) sees his talent firing on all cylinders."

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 18, 2025

The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese, boasts plot twists and is an Oscar-winning highlight of his illustrious career.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 23, 2024

Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs is as tough as a street fighter.

| Jul 19, 2023

One of the best crime dramas ever made, The Departed is a riveting film capable of being watched repeatedly. The pacing, acting, and writing are all superb, but what did you expect from a Scorsese picture?

| Jun 14, 2023

...an overlong yet mostly engrossing thriller...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 14, 2023

[Scorsese] turns the clever cat-and-mouse story of two rival informants scrambling to save themselves from discovery, into a star-studded mob opera spiked with grimy underworld detail and juiced with adrenaline and suspicion.

| Jun 25, 2022

The movie that finally brought Scorsese gold (15th anniversary)

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 14, 2021

Violent (a Scorsese trademark) and energetic, the fast-paced, compelling story features terrific performances and surprising humor, especially in repartee between Alec Baldwin and Mark Wahlberg...

| Aug 10, 2021

Scorsese claims to be appalled by the violence in life and in his own films, yet he continues to glamorize sociopaths.

| Feb 14, 2021

Just might be Scorsese's most complex, well-balanced gangster flick.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Nov 21, 2020

While Nicholson steals the film's long set-up, the second half of The Departed becomes a psychologically taut battle of wits and nerves between Billy and Colin...

| May 15, 2020

The Departed continues filmmaker Martin Scorsese's trend of making at least one motion picture masterpiece per decade--this time, winning an Oscar.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 2, 2020

As entertaining as it is thought-provoking. This is among the very best films of 2006.

| Original Score: A | Nov 20, 2019

Like taking a master class in filmmaking and ensemble acting.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 5, 2019

An enthralling morality tale in which the mortality rate escalates in tandem with the tensions generated by its riveting narrative.

| Feb 19, 2019

The film elapses in a strange way, with the first 60% of the film feeling like an extended introduction with lots of exposition, leaving the last 40% as its conclusion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2019

The biggest draw, of course, are the star acts: Caprio, Damon and Mark Wahlberg in particular are electric.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 17, 2019

Very violent, but very, very good.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 29, 2018

If you like Scorsese, or if you just like thrillers, you'll have a good time.

| Feb 27, 2018

Though the story is a corker of a premise, with detours into the perils of ambition and duplicity, you can't hope to become emotionally invested in these reputedly troubled souls.

| Feb 27, 2018