Posts Tagged ‘Ben Affleck’
Film Review – Justice League
With all its spectacle and bluster, Justice League opens on a low-quality shot designed like it’s coming from someone’s phone. Encompassing the shot is Superman (Henry Cavill), before his death in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, a boy asks him what his favorite thing…
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Film Review – Live By Night
Live by Night marks Ben Affleck’s fourth outing as a director of a feature film. It is also his fourth time as a feature film screenwriter. The film is based on the bestseller by Dennis Lehane who was also the author of Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone. Affleck…
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Film Review – Captain America: Civil War
It is hard to review a film like Captain America: Civil War, since it might be arguably the most critic-proof movie of the year. Critics are already heaping praise on it, and I’m not going waste your time posturing like I disagree. It is an incredibly…
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Film Review – Everybody Wants Some
If you read the movie trades like a respectable and not at all nerdy human being, you’ve probably heard director Richard Linklater describe his newest film, Everybody Wants Some, as a “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused and rejoiced in your not at all dimly…
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Film Review – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
When Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (2013) came out, I found myself liking it more than some of my colleagues. Yes, it had major problems, but I enjoyed the grandeur, scope, and energy Snyder put into that film. Thinking about it now, my impression remains…
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Film Review – The Gift
Whoa. Joel Edgerton’s debut feature The Gift (2015) is good. Actually, it’s really good. Really really good. This might be one of the finest first efforts of an actor turned writer/director since Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone (2007). Edgerton has made a tense psychological drama…
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Film Review – Gone Girl
Fincher, you done did it again. Kicking off the most prestigious of movie seasons in a particularly devilish manner, David Fincher‘s Gone Girl may be his most assured work to date. And that’s saying something. An adaptation of Gillian Flynn‘s insanely popular book (you might…
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Film Review – Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
The first time we saw the character of Jack Ryan on the screen was in The Hunt for Red October (1990), played by Alec Baldwin. Since then, he’s been portrayed by Harrison Ford (Patriot Games/Clear and Present Danger) and Ben Affleck (The Sum of All…
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