The Departed review at NRO

I’m in NRO today with a review of Martin Scorsese’s latest brilliant crime pic, The Departed, a massively entertaining cops-n-robbers flick that's loaded up with stars: Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Martin Sheen, Mark Wahlberg, and Alec Baldwin. Here’s a starter:

With The Departed, the director has returned with a guns-blazing reclamation of his old crime-movie turf. Once again delving into the brutal machinations of the criminal underworld — albeit in Boston rather than New York — he has fired off his most ferocious, explosively entertaining film in more than a decade. Crime may not pay, but for Scorsese (and his fans), crime movies most certainly do.

Read the whole thing at National Review Online.