Review of Live by Night (2016) by Seraphic W — 06 Feb 2017

Solid, Interesting but lacking a good script.

This review of Live by Night (2016) was written by Seraphic W on 06 Feb 2017.

Live by Night has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 16 Oct 2017

With a running time of more than two hours, this sprawling, would-be epic needed to deliver far more…

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By Brittney A (3) on 27 Mar 2018

Thought it was a pretty decent movie! Worth the time watching…

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By Niall Browne (53) for Movies in Focus (52) on 02 Nov 2018

Tommy guns, bootleggers, fedoras and molls - Ben Affleck's Live By Night has everything you would want from a 1930s gangster drama…

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By Sextet (13) on 16 Sep 2021

Pretty Good Crime Thriller Yeah, I know I'm supposed to hate Ben Affleck because he did his woman wrong or he was a horrible Batman or because…

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By Mahmus (190) on 25 Sep 2020

Ben Affleck is a great director, but this was just really, really boring. The best thing about this movie is Elle Fanning…

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By Theateam7734 (3) on 12 Apr 2018

It is understandable that Ben Affleck's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel is unable to contain the same effect as the book, due to the amount…

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By Xenophobe114 (16) on 24 Jun 2021

Gangster Movie I went to the theater to watch a Gangster/Mafia movie, and I got one. Mafia movies are by far my favorite type of movie…

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By Alistair Ryder (351) for Cut Print Film (3) on 03 Oct 2018

A wrongheaded attempt at a noir thriller that manages to make cinema's coolest genre look utterly, irredeemably ridiculous…

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By Renuka Vyavahare (150) for The Times of India (879) on 03 Nov 2017

Live by Night is not an out-and-out gangster film. If you don't go in expecting the same, you'll enjoy watching it…

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