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- 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.
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Jan 13, 2017 · So, the key question behind “Live by Night” isn’t so much “Why did they bother?” as “What went wrong?” Advertisement “Live by Night” is the story of the rise of a relatively low-level mobster named Joe Coughlin (Affleck) during Prohibition.
Jan 13, 2017 · Live by Night boasts visual style and an impressive cast, but they're lost in a would-be crime saga that finds producer, director, and star Ben Affleck revisiting familiar themes to...
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All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review. Not every role feels fleshed-out, and the pacing puts the viewer at a distance, but there are several...
Dec 22, 2016 · The Times critic Manohla Dargis reviews “Live by Night.” Claire Folger/Warner Brothers Pictures. “Live by Night” is a messy, unfocused movie about ambition, lost ideals, corrupt men...
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Jan 6, 2017 · Live By Night review: Ben Affleck's mob drama is nearly kiss of death. Narcissism dogs Affleck’s self-direction which is too forgiving of his dubious character and relegates its female...
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...
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.
