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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 12 Jan 2017

It's 129 minutes long and feels twice that, draining the life out of actors as lively as Chris Messina, Chris Cooper, Brendan Gleeson, Elle…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 12 Jan 2017

There's a lot to recommend Affleck's fourth outing as a director, including sumptuous production design…

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By Jay Horton (37) for Willamette Week (516) on 12 Jan 2017

The last 90 minutes crawl by as an extended estate-planning commercial replete with endless widescreen ogles of classic cars passing lush Floridian…

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By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 12 Jan 2017

It's all fine, entertaining stuff, bookended with some rip-roaring set-pieces…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 12 Jan 2017

It's beautifully assembled by a skilled cast and crew…

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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 12 Jan 2017

Brendan Gleeson does more fine acting in his few brief scenes than Affleck does in the entire film (note: posing is not acting, no matter how…

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By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 12 Jan 2017

An intermittently exciting film which can't decide what it wants to be and ends up being nothing…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 12 Jan 2017

Affleck falls prey to the occupational hazard of wanting to create his own myth, as he produces, directs, writes and stars in a flaccid screen…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 12 Jan 2017

The film strives for Roman Polanski's Chinatown, but sadly ends up closer to Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy…

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By Kristian M. Lin (336) for Fort Worth Weekly (325) on 12 Jan 2017

You'll need a pair of hip waders to make your way through the clichés that the actors have to spout: You Can't Trust Anyone, No One Gets Away…

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By Tirdad Derakhshani (358) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 12 Jan 2017

It's intriguing enough to suck you in, but confusing, fragmentary, frustrating…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 12 Jan 2017

[T]his is a fairly familiar tale of a criminal whose rises and falls seem to be dictated ... by the needs of a plot…

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By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 12 Jan 2017

It's an eminently watchable and often entertaining movie, but there's scarcely a minute where you can delude yourself into thinking it's a good film…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 12 Jan 2017

The damper here is Affleck, who appears to have been too concerned with placing himself just so, and then posing, so that nothing drew attention…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Jan 2017

Writer-director-star Ben Affleck goes for broke and goes bust with an American tale that mistakes muchness for greatness…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 12 Jan 2017

Affleck the screenwriter seems to have dumped the story onto the kitchen table and pushed it around like dough, hoping for some shape to emerge…

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By Loey Lockerby (139) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 12 Jan 2017

Like Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone, this is an adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel, which means great atmosphere and way too many ridiculous…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 12 Jan 2017

The visual and performative elements are polished enough in Live by Night, but it lacks any sense of urgency…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 12 Jan 2017

It's really easy to sum up everything that's wrong with Ben Affleck's Live By Night: It should have been a miniseries…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 12 Jan 2017

Trimmed down from a 400-page novel by Dennis Lehane, the film has a swarm of interesting denizens and plot ingredients…

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