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Black Mass
Directed by
Scott Cooper
R
2015
2h 3m
Drama
,
Crime
,
and more
6.8
73%
68%
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The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
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Cast of Black Mass
Johnny Depp
James 'Whitey' Bulger
Joel Edgerton
John Connolly
Julianne Nicholson
Marianne Connolly
Dakota Johnson
Lindsey Cyr
Kevin Bacon
FBI Agent Charles McGuire
Benedict Cumberbatch
Billy Bulger
Peter Sarsgaard
Brian Halloran
Juno Temple
Deborah Hussey
Jesse Plemons
Kevin Weeks
David Harbour
John Morris
Adam Scott
FBI Agent Robert Fitzpatrick
Corey Stoll
Fred Wyshak
Bill Camp
John Callahan
Mark Mahoney
Mickey Maloney
Brad Carter
John McIntyre
Scott G. Anderson
Tommy King
Lonnie Farmer
DEA Agent Eric Olsen (Interrogator)
Mary Klug
Mom Bulger
Erica McDermott
Mary Bulger
Luke Ryan
Douglas Cyr
Owen Burke
Buddy Leonard
Lewis D. Wheeler
Jeremiah O'Sullivan
Billy Meleady
Joe Cahill
Jamie Donnelly
Mrs. Cody
David De Beck
Roger Wheeler
Gary Galone
State Captain
Rory Cochrane
Stephen Flemmi
James Russo
Agent Scott Gariola
Jeremy Strong
Josh Bond
Danae Nason
McGuire's Secretary
Bretton Manley
Young Boy
Berglind Jonsdottir
Anna Bjornsdottir
David Conley
Officer Flynn
Ciaran Crawford
Irish Nationalist
Thomas Philip O'Neill
FBI Wire Tech
Joey Vacchio
Joey, Big Italian
Bill Haims
Gennaro Angiulo
Anthony Molinari
Charlie McTiernan
Declan Mulvey
Charlie's Friend
Bates Wilder
Agent James
Marc Carver
Dick Lehr
Richard Donelly
Gerard O'Neill
Brian A. White
Prisoner
Peter Morse
FBI Agent
Tom Kemp
Father Mackey
Patrick M. Walsh
Michael Donahue
Naheem Garcia
DEA Agent
Kathryn A. Beauchamp
Nurse
Stephen Curran
Drug Dealer
Darin X.L. MacEachern
Drug Dealer
Cary 'Big Shug' Guy
Drug Dealer
Sean Malone
Crook
Jack Neary
Barman
Jimmy Joe Maher
Boot Shop Owner
Forry Buckingham
World Jai Alai Chairman
Danny DeMiller
Porthole Bartender
Michael F. Murphy
Porthole Customer
Alexander Cook
DEA Agent Dan Doherty
Ava Cooper
Little Mary Bulger
Stella Cooper
Kathleen Bulger
Arthur Hiou
Driver
Todd Ryan Jones
Charlie's Friend
Julie Ann Dawson
Floor Dancer (uncredited)
Fergaledgar
Trevor Williams (uncredited)
Robert E. Walsh
Sr. FBI Official (voice)
W. Earl Brown
John Martorano
Jim Powers
The Mayor
Jeff Kamps
Walker
Susan Garfield
Press Photographer
Colleen Kelly
Marion Hussey (uncredited)
Scott Cooper
Director / Producer
Jez Butterworth
Writer
Mark Mallouk
Writer
Gerard O'Neill
Writer
Dick Lehr
Writer
Brian Oliver
Producer
John Lesher
Producer
Tyler Thompson
Producer
Patrick McCormick
Producer
Black Mass Ratings & Reviews
dascomputers13
July 6, 2025
Good story but they sure could have improved in details and timeline. Actors were fine, yet their motives were confusing at best. It was a violent gore movie with an organized crime shell. Could have been so much better. Oh well. Eat popcorn and drink a rolling rock.
Slashfilm
Angie Han
Scott Cooper appears to have made Black Mass under the assumption that his work was half done the moment he jotted the words "Boston-set crime drama" on a notepad.
Complex
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
Depp sticks out like a sore thumb in an otherwise bland crime drama. And when the film isn't distracting, it's mostly just plain boring.
Baltimore Magazine
Max Weiss
Yes, it's a relief to see Depp playing a real character again, not another one of his circus freaks -- I just wish he'd been given a better film to operate in.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
A a well-crafted, well-acted, and competently executed movie that you've seen many, many times before.
BuzzFeed News
Alison Willmore
Black Mass... can't figure Whitey out. Developments that seem important come and go without their mark on the man being clear.
Vox
Emily St. James
It's all handsomely mounted and strikingly shot. The performances are all good, and the dialogue has a muted grandeur. But you'll also notice just how unriveted you are, just how little you can bring yourself to care.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
How much longer must we subscribe, as moviegoers, to the sentimental brotherhood of violence?
International Business Times
Monica Castillo
It's good to see Depp back to form. Shame about the movie he's in, though.
AskMen.com
Radheyan Simonpillai
Scott Cooper's self-serious style has been oppressive in movies like Crazy Heart and Out of the Furnace, but this time he actually has real material to take seriously.
The Atlantic
Christopher Orr
The role is Depp's best in many years, and a welcome respite from the parade of prancing pseudo-villains-Mortdecai, the Wolf, Barnabas Collins, Jack Sparrow, Willy Wonka-to which he has devoted far too much of his career.
Slate
Dana Stevens
Depp's performance as Bulger is as strong, and as energized, as anything he's done on screen for years.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
It's as if the spirit of a psychopath like Bulger resists the camera. Or maybe the movie isn't imaginative enough to penetrate his shell.
Film Comment Magazine
Michael Sragow
But Scott Cooper's Black Mass, based on the book of the same name by first-rate Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill, is a misfire.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
[Depp] holds the screen as pure malevolence.
Grantland
Wesley Morris
The acting here is much stronger and more soulful than I would have expected, and not only from Depp.
Detroit News
Tom Long
With all the talent on board here, expectations go beyond creepiness; unfortunately creepiness is about as far as the movie ultimately goes.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
The most terrifying image on movie screens this year is the ice blue eyes of Johnny Depp as crime boss Jimmy "Whitey" Bulger, opaque, implacable, and piercing.
USA Today
Brian Truitt
While there's nothing totally new here, Black Mass works the tropes extremely well and sets the scene early in the mean streets of 1970s South Boston.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A bleak, claustrophobic based-on-fact film that draws us completely into a dark world of crime and complicity.
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