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The Departed (Scorsese, 2006)

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Mar 13, 2024
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Still from The Departed

On Monday night Martin Scorsese sat in the Dolby Theatre and watched patiently as his latest film received no academy awards from ten nominations.

While I’m sure that was a disappointment, perhaps his mind went back to 2006 when he was making another ‘comeback’, returning to the gangster genre where critics at the time felt he belonged.

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