TIFF Movie Reviews: The Buzz on This Year's Huge Films

Johnny Depp undergoes another onscreen transformation, this time playing real-life mobster Whitey Bulger. The film tackles the time in Bulger's life when he was working as an informant for the FBI while also trying to take down a rival mafia family in South Boston. The film isn't compelling enough to make Black Mass stand beside the greats like The Godfather and The Departed, but Depp delivers an engrossing performance that should earn him plenty of award season attention, and the rest of the star-studded cast (which includes Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, and Joel Edgerton) are excellent as well.