Tag: Ben Affleck

Summarizing Nukes It’s unnerving how unusually prescient the Jack Ryan films tend be. Not long after 9/11, as nations stood on alert for Middle Eastern terrorists, Sum of All …

Minor League The high camp moment of Justice League happens near the finale when Superman makes his predictable return. An edit cuts to Batman who glows, sporting a smile …

Batbore and Superdull Adding 30 minutes to a gratuitous, messy film doesn’t fix anything. The pseudo-observant Batman v Superman still limps through rounds of movie logic like a riper …

Marketing Champion Man of Steel brought Superman into a post-9/11 America, a place where 2006’s Superman Returns was unwilling to go. Old Superman’s symbolic hope and flawless heroism was …

Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike soar in David Fincher’s screen adaptation Ben Affleck first appears in Gone Girl curbside. It’s trash day. The streets are clear. There are no …

The film is “inspired” by true events, sidelined by heavy embellishments to fit into a pre-established mold.

Jersey Girl deserves some personal resentment, picking apart an audience with its cliches and terrible decision making.

Twenty years ago if you said, “That guy from Mallrats will make the best CIA movie of the 2000s,” you would have been called crazy.

Affleck and Paltrow bond on screen, the pacing carries realistic flow, and in terms of mass audience appeal, it breaks at the exact moment necessary.

Now with an alternate ending, The Town is a different movie.

There's sympathy in the performances, the trials and stresses of their now unemployed lives a burden that can be seen and felt.

It's the character of The Town that gives it life and sympathy.