The Departed
The Overdue Masterpiece: Reevaluating The Departed on its 20th Anniversary Martin Scorsese is, in my eyes, the best working director today. Even though I haven't caught up with every single title in his massive filmography—classic gaps like The King of Comedy , After Hours , and The Last Temptation of Christ are still on my watchlist—his unmatched enthusiasm for the medium of film shines through every frame of his work. Scorsese notoriously prepares his casts and crews by having them watch classic films to evoke a specific mood or feeling. His movies are loaded with sumptuous, period-accurate detail. Lately, his films have grown into massive epics—both The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon push well past the three-hour mark. Yet, if I am watching them in a cinema, I will rarely take a bathroom break. I simply cannot take my eyes off the screen. As a film fan, it often feels like The Departed suffers from a lin...