Donnie Brasco

The story plays like a companion to GoodFellas, with the same lore, the same fierce Mafia code, the same alternation between sudden violence and weird comedy.

Pacino, as hunched and battered here as he was smooth and powerful as The Godfather, is remarkable, and Depp manfully keeps up with him.

Donnie Brasco, it must be said, is not The Godfather or Goodfellas, but its more workmanlike approach has its own rewards.

Touching, clever, emotionally complex gangster picture set in the late '70s/early '80s and based on a true story.

...takes us into a world that the movies frequently open to us, but somehow this trip seems more real and less glamorized than most.