Review: “Black Mass” Captures Whitey Bulger’s Reign of Terror

Like his earlier works (Crazy Heart and Out of the Furnace), director Scott Cooper’s latest film Black Mass is a character-driven story. Unlike those other earlier films which often featured good men making some bad decisions, the main character here is one of the most monstrous men of the past three decades. That man is James Whitey Bulger, the Boston mobster who was one of the FBI’s Most Wanted criminals before he was arrested in early 2011.

Captured through the lens of criminal interrogations of his closest associates, the director presents the notorious gangster as a man capable of doing anything to keep power in South Boston.

It’s only a few moments into the story when we see Bulger — back on the streets of Boston after a long stint in Alcatraz — controlling...

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Nov 23rd 2021
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