Black Masshas an outstanding supporting cast, which also got widely overlooked at the 2016 Academy Awards.

Bulger was released from prison in 1965 after serving a nine-year sentence for armed robbery and truck hijacking.

Black Masshad the makings of an all-time great gangster movie.

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Similarly,Black Massreceived a Metascore of 68, which again, is solid but not necessarily Oscar-material.

According toThe Hollywood Reporter, “Bulger voiced his anger for the filmmakers behind the Whitey biopic Black Mass.

Whitey wanted to be the architect of his own mythology.

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Black Mass is a crime drama biography based on the true story of one of the most notorious criminals in U.S. History, Whitey Bulger. When Bulger’s turf is encroached on by a rival mafia family, the Angiulo brothers, the death of one of his own mafia family members leads him to join his long-time friend and become an informant for the FBI to exact his revenge - and push the Angiulo’s out of his turf.

Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger with his hands in front of his face in Black Mass

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Stephen Flemmi and James Bulger in a car in Black Mass

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Black Mass is a crime drama biography based on the true story of one of the most notorious criminals in U.S. History, Whitey Bulger. When Bulger’s turf is encroached on by a rival mafia family, the Angiulo brothers, the death of one of his own mafia family members leads him to join his long-time friend and become an informant for the FBI to exact his revenge - and push the Angiulo’s out of his turf.

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