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By Andy Crump (279) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 26 Jun 2014

Berlinger knows his stuff, and that understanding is reflected in the film, but the filmmaker ultimately dilutes his personal pursuit of justice…

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By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 26 Jun 2014

The real question of culpability that provides an element of suspense here, ironically, concerns not the obvious baddies but the ostensible good guys…

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By Landon Palmer (30) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 26 Jun 2014

An informative yet unfocused study of murder and corruption...'Whitey' never quite coheres or fully expresses what exactly it wants to illuminate…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 26 Jun 2014

At times 'Whitey' plays like David Fincher's 'Zodiac': a mass of dead ends and bureaucratic incompetence that makes you wonder how justice…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 26 Jun 2014

[It] leaves us wanting more - more on Bulger's childhood, more on the Irish gangs, more on the awful crimes themselves…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 25 Jun 2014

Filmmaker Joe Berlinger isn’t so much inspired as disgusted by the notorious gangster in his newest documentary…

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By Dan Fienberg (310) for HitFix (861) on 25 Jun 2014

Every subject in the doc has a stake in the case and they each yell their truth to the sky, with the certitude of somebody whose next meal…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Racket (579) on 25 Jun 2014

By the end of the film, it can't help but read as another of Bulger's self-mythologizing claims that once made him a false Robin Hood for Southie…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 25 Jun 2014

Provides little in the way of comforting catharsis…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 25 Jun 2014

Its powerful narratives leaves you with the strong suspicion that the whole story has not yet been told…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 25 Jun 2014

Filled with horrific but colorful anecdotes, director Joe Berlinger’s incisive look at the mobster life of Boston career criminal and FBI…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 25 Jun 2014

Unfocused, overly long documentary raises provocative questions…

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By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Jun 2014

It seems too enamored with the seductive notion of an honorable criminal, too ready to take Bulger's justifications as actual indications of…

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By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 24 Jun 2014

As this dense and ultimately frustrating documentary shows, Bulger is not only unrepentant, but claims he did not have a fair trial due to…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 23 Jun 2014

Berlinger may be our premier true-crime documentarian (though he has many other arrows in his quiver)...a crisp (if dense) examination of a…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Jun 2014

This is still one of his (Berlinger) most ambitious films, vibrating with the same municipal unease as Chinatown…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Jun 2014

Berlinger covers lots of territory, including heartrending accounts from the family members of some of Bulger's victims…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 23 Jun 2014

It’s a compelling story…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 23 Jun 2014

The fact that Bulger, at long last, is rotting in jail, is little consolation…

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By Ken L (247) on 05 Jun 2014

A very interesting documentary put out by Radical Media/CNN Films…

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