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How much longer must we subscribe, as moviegoers, to the sentimental brotherhood of violence?
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Overview
Mavela, 15 years old, is a Black Bronx. She falls madly in love with Marwan, an extremely charismatic member of a rival gang, the 1080s. The young couple is forced to make a brutal choice between gang loyalty and the love they have for one another. An impossible dilemma.
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Fresh
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.
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
Fresh
Depp's performance as Bulger is as strong, and as energized, as anything he's done on screen for years.
Dana Stevens, Slate
Rotten
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.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
[Depp] holds the screen as pure malevolence.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
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