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Jan 13, 2017 · Whatever faults you may find in his other three films, they had momentum, especially nail-biting works like “ The Town ” and “Argo.” “Live by Night” is almost stunningly momentum-less. It often plods from plot point to plot point. Some scenes go on far too long, especially in the final act when Affleck is trying to wring emotion ...
Jan 13, 2017 · Rated: 2.5/4 Aug 17, 2021 Full Review Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema 'Live By Night' is a great American epic stuck inside a misguided movie. Rated: 1.5/5 Jun 3, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews
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By Jim Vejvoda
Updated: May 2, 2017 6:35 pm
Posted: Dec 21, 2016 2:00 pm
Live by Night opens in L.A. and New York City on Christmas Day and expands into wide release January 13, 2017.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Ben Affleck reunites with Gone Baby Gone author (and fellow Masshole) Dennis Lehane for the period crime drama Live by Night, an ambitious but unwieldy adaptation of the latter’s novel of the same name. Live by Night is arguably director Affleck's first merely good film instead of a great one, which means he still has one hell of a batting average among actor-directors.
This sprawling saga follows World War I vet-turned-criminal Joe Coughlin (a rather impassive Affleck), who is carrying on an affair with Emma Gould (Sienna Miller), the moll of an Irish mobster at war with Boston's Italian Mafia. When that all goes violently awry, Joe finds himself in the employ of mafioso Maso Pescatore (Remo Girone), an act of submission Joe never thought he'd commit again after following others in the Great War.
Director-star Ben Affleck’s Live by Night boasts impeccable casting, period recreation, action set-pieces, and cinematography, but it’s marred by a disjointed narrative and some choppy pacing. It meanders, short-shrifts several key characters and subplots, and simply has too many things to juggle in two-plus hours.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 9, 2019. Allen Adams The Maine Edge. Live By Night suffers for trying to do too much. Even with a running time over two hours, it manages to feel ...
Dec 21, 2016 · ‘Live by Night’: Film Review. Ben Affleck wrote, directed and stars in this retelling of Dennis Lehane's 1920s-set novel about the son of an honest Boston-Irish cop who works his way up in ...
Jan 13, 2017 · Live by Night: Directed by Ben Affleck. With Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Remo Girone, Brendan Gleeson. A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
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Dec 21, 2016 · Film Review: ‘Live by Night’ Reviewed at Warner Bros., New York, November 28, 2016. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 129 MIN. ... Saw the movie last night. It was the most violent romantic drama ...
