Critic Review - The New Republic

Is Scorsese desperate? This screenplay has the scent of it, as if he is scraping for material to feed his basic filmic interests.

October 26, 2006 Full Review Source: The New Republic | Comments (30)
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leebrandt33

lee brandt

You obviously would make a terrible filmmaker, and we should be thankful you're not.

Oct 30 - 10:12 AM

jamesreed@ou.edu

James Reed

I guess I appreciate another opinion, but that screenplay is terrific!

Jan 30 - 01:19 PM

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rodney olson

Suspension of disbelief is a must when it comes to movie viewing, but DiCaprio as a tough guy? Impossible. Dreadfull movie.

Feb 10 - 03:53 PM

Stuart Wilson

Stuart Wilson

only reason anyone can't picture Dicaprio is if they only saw him act in Titanic then The Departed!...

Sep 13 - 02:37 AM

Austin Crane

Austin Crane

no, i think dicaprio was convincing in this movie - the acting was welldone

May 26 - 07:31 PM

exidor

Ed Casey

It reads more like a review of the filmmaker than the film itself.

Mar 23 - 11:32 AM

H.Limmen

Unknown Unknown

Jan 15 - 08:55 AM

Ben B.

Ben Brodmann Morales

I feel bad for you. If you couldn't enjoy this movie, than what movie can you enjoy?
It's sad you're just trying to be controversial, you're just starving for attention..

Feb 5 - 12:03 AM

mike b.

mike barkley

Kauffman your pathetic, ive read your reviews on 3 classic movies, raging bull, goodfellas and now the departed and all of them have the scent of a terrible movie critic whos does more hating on scorsesse than doing his job, whoever hired you is a retard, im sure if scorsesse ever made a movie about a gay pedophile it would be right up your alley, you freak

Nov 26 - 09:43 AM

Ram-Jam-Joe

joe adams

That script was so bad they gave an oscar. Brilliant review numnuts.

Oct 12 - 04:49 PM

bucco13

anthony bucco

The marketplace and the Academy have voted....

Nov 26 - 10:46 PM

Stanzi-Manzi

Susan Talbot

I usually love Scorsese films (exc. for the terrible "Gangs of New York"), but this is no "Casino" and certainly no "Goodfellas". "Scraping for material" it is, but that's okay, as long as you know what you're doing. Scorsese is clearly out of his depth in Boston's underworld!

Jun 10 - 05:13 PM

zig f.

zig fronczak

You wouldn't know a great movie if it bitch slapped you in the @#$% face.

Jul 14 - 07:59 PM

William Costigan Jr.

William Costigan Jr.

Well your an idiot. Its funny he asks if Martin is desperate, umm you look alittle desperate there stanley. Scraping for material? Are you scraping for attention #youareajackass smh

Nov 15 - 11:24 AM

zig f.

zig fronczak

!@#$%^&*

Jul 14 - 07:57 PM

Ernesto Tobias

Ernesto Tobias

hey guys im not gay

Aug 9 - 08:44 PM

Jonathan Sicard

Jonathan Sicard

...good for you?

Sep 18 - 07:25 AM

Vince Rodriguez

Vince Rodriguez

Super...but Kaufmann the (anti) critic is. He seriously needs to tell his man not to bang his as*hole while he's writing his brilliant, awe inspiring, ultra accurate(too funny! Lmao) reviews...some poor person is busting their as* to feed their kids or go to college and this inept,moronic,out dated (expired and spoiled) fool gets paid top dollar to write his bullsh*t...wow, sad...

Dec 20 - 10:17 AM

Laurence Marzilli

Laurence Marzilli

No, scorsese isn't desperate. He made a great realistic film. maybe you should look at the outside world around you and do something write for a change.

Oct 5 - 04:38 PM

William Costigan Jr.

William Costigan Jr.

Its funny how you rated all scorses films similarly. You a f u c king desperate, is that how you got that undeserving Top critic star next to your name, by just going against good movies so you are the only one without a tomateo next to their name.

Nov 15 - 11:26 AM

Bo Lotti

Bo Lotti

It's funny because it won Best Picture and Screenplay.

Nov 23 - 09:42 AM

Vince Rodriguez

Vince Rodriguez

Ha ha...lol...yea but according to Stan the Man, movies with violence and cussing are crappolla. In his view, & the Smurffs or Alvin & the Chipmunks (part whatever) were masterpieces of modern cinema. And as a smurff would say to Stan..."Your reviews are all smurffed up...do you take a bunch of smurffs & down em with vodka before you write your smurffing garbage". I still can't fathom how you get paid to write your back-ass-wards reviews. When you give a movie a completely bad or negative review, I grab my stubbs card & run (not walk) to the movie theatre...!!!

Jan 3 - 09:41 AM

Vince Rodriguez

Vince Rodriguez

You know, one of my dream jobs growing up was being a film critic. You get to pre-view new & anticipated films in private screenings and get submersed in the film world. Sounds great to me. The only thing holding me back was that I thought it would be hard to become a top film critic (as it supposedly is). However, you give me hope Stanley, because you are an INCREDIBLE idiot and your reviews are WAY off base and out of touch. I mean, seriously, you get paid to write the nonsense you do? Amazing, truely amazing. If the film is not a wholesome G or PG flick its crap right? What a warped,1950's era, cheesy brain you have man.

Dec 20 - 10:06 AM

Prats Majmudar

Prats Majmudar

This is "Departed" and you are "retarded"

Dec 26 - 08:14 PM

Michael Bevilacqua

Michael Bevilacqua

Can you do any better? You're only making fun of him because he's got a couple of years on you you fuck. There's certainly a reason that it was the best film of the year by EVERY OTHER CRITIC.

Mar 16 - 09:53 PM

Austin Pilkington

Austin Pilkington

DiCaprio is amazing again!
Great movie stop being a contrarian!!!

May 26 - 06:18 PM

Bo Lotti

Bo Lotti

Shawd up, Cwak Sucka.

Jul 1 - 01:13 AM

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