‘The Departed’ marks Scorsese’s return to modern gang genre
In Martin Scorsese’s new movie “The Departed,” Jack Nicholson parades around the screen wearing a leopard-print bathrobe while women half his age hang off each arm. He growls out strings of unspeakable profanity, pausing occasionally to sing a rousing Irish ballad or two. He eats bugs, sticks his hands into melon-sized bowls of cocaine, waves around an enormous black dildo, and boasts a haircut that looks like it hasn’t been washed since the Clinton administration. More »
