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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 22 Dec 2016

Live By Night boils over with ambience and charged with details, from Roaring 20s flapper costumes to shootouts in period cars, but too many…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 22 Dec 2016

Live by Night is by no means a wash of a film. But there's a clunking in the machinery…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 22 Dec 2016

The movie looks quite nice, thanks to Affleck, and that's about the most you can say for its hero, too…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for Den of Geek (424) on 21 Dec 2016

For a movie where so much occurs in the first 30 minutes, the pace still tends to drag and, at times, is as slow as hell…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 21 Dec 2016

Live by Night is clearly Affleck’s love letter to classic pulp, and almost no noir touchstone goes unturned in its two-hour-plus run…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for Time Out (7,510) on 21 Dec 2016

There’s a lot of cinema to admire here…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Dec 2016

The film is sharply written and crafted, lavishly photographed, impeccably acted, with lots of twists and turns — yet for all that, it somehow…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 21 Dec 2016

Live By Night is solid enough entertainment, but it lacks the nasty edge or narrative muscularity to make it memorable…

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By Brian B (2,161) on 21 Dec 2016

Live by night'Good Movies for movie gangster…

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By Joseph Hernandez (6) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 21 Dec 2016

Overstuffed and disappointing, Live By Night wastes a strong supporting cast…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 21 Dec 2016

Although Affleck's been a decent director - capturing real local color in Gone Baby Gone and The Town, building tension nicely in Argo - his…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 21 Dec 2016

At their worst, Affleck’s roles are stern and lifeless without soul, pretty sculptures with nothing inside…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 21 Dec 2016

This Prohibition-era drama deals limply with themes of loyalty, love, power and redemption, but not in any unique way, its emotional punch…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 21 Dec 2016

The period detail is rich and worth watching, and there’s a deep bench of strong character actors to give the movie occasional jolts of life…

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By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Dec 2016

Labelling Live By Night a disaster is a little uncharitable; the baggy drama is perhaps more painfully mediocre than full-blown folly, but…

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By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Reverse Shot (113) on 21 Dec 2016

An outright catastrophe as historical drama, it gets halfway to redeeming itself as camp…

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By Chris Bumbray (988) for JoBlo's Movie Emporium (1,959) on 21 Dec 2016

A terrific throwback gangster flick in the mold of WB's James Cagney/ Humphrey Bogart classics. Great action, excellent writing/acting…

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By Clayton Davis (240) for AwardsCircuit.com (450) on 21 Dec 2016

While Live By Night is surely stylish, and features a set of terrific performances, it's deprived of inspiration and misplaced in a year that…

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By Dennis J (68) on 16 Dec 2016

Absolutely. All of Lehane's books are great and this one in particular. Ben Affleck is perfect to direct and to be in it…

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By Jason A (950) on 16 Dec 2016

Absolutely. All of Lehane's books are great and this one in particular. Ben Affleck is perfect to direct and to be in it…

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