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Live by Night boasts visual style and an impressive cast, but they're lost in a would-be crime saga that finds producer, director, and star Ben Affleck revisiting familiar themes to diminishing effect.
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It's not Goodfellas. It lacks the black humour and the relish for eccentricity for its own sake, and the ending verges on mawkishness. But it's great entertainment -- a cunningly wrought tribute to old-fashioned Hollywood and the Warners style. Jan 27, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's not Goodfellas. It lacks the black humour and the relish for eccentricity for its own sake, and the ending verges on mawkishness. But it's great entertainment -- a cunningly wrought tribute to old-fashioned Hollywood and the Warners style.
Sandra Hall
You probably won't turn it off when it comes on cable. But the material needs to be bigger, more momentous, as well as more intimate. Jan 17, 2017 | Full Review…
You probably won't turn it off when it comes on cable. But the material needs to be bigger, more momentous, as well as more intimate.
David Edelstein
One of the film's final set pieces is so wonderfully staged that it reminds you what skill Affleck has with the camera. Next time, he should perhaps confine himself behind it. Jan 16, 2017 | Full Review…
One of the film's final set pieces is so wonderfully staged that it reminds you what skill Affleck has with the camera. Next time, he should perhaps confine himself behind it.
David Sims
Live by Night is a solid, interesting but sprawling and often overwrought gangster picture. Jan 13, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Live by Night is a solid, interesting but sprawling and often overwrought gangster picture.
Bruce Kirkland
A footnote in the history of cinematic mob stories. Jan 13, 2017 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
A footnote in the history of cinematic mob stories.
Brian Tallerico
It ain't rubbish, but Affleck's fly-by-night operation is still one to avoid. Jan 13, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It ain't rubbish, but Affleck's fly-by-night operation is still one to avoid.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
There are morsels of pleasure to be found here and there... No, it's not garbage. It's just a formless affair that feels destined to be relegated to the 2 and a half star pile on Netflix. It's a shame. Sep 30, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
There are morsels of pleasure to be found here and there... No, it's not garbage. It's just a formless affair that feels destined to be relegated to the 2 and a half star pile on Netflix. It's a shame.
Rhys Tarling
Costume design, ambiance, production design and photography are magnificent, but what really draws attention is Affleck's visual ability, much more ambitious than the rest of his filmography. [Full Review in Spanish] Aug 16, 2019 | Full Review…
Costume design, ambiance, production design and photography are magnificent, but what really draws attention is Affleck's visual ability, much more ambitious than the rest of his filmography. [Full Review in Spanish]
Jorge Loser
Let no one call Live By Night unwatchable. Instead, let it be shown to every douchey, arrogant white filmmaker dude itching to ape Scorsese without putting in the work or possessing the talent. Jun 25, 2019 | Rating: F- | Full Review…
Let no one call Live By Night unwatchable. Instead, let it be shown to every douchey, arrogant white filmmaker dude itching to ape Scorsese without putting in the work or possessing the talent.
Ryan Syrek
It is quite disappointing that [Affleck's] latest project, Live by Night, fails to deliver anything interesting, compelling, or original. Mar 22, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
It is quite disappointing that [Affleck's] latest project, Live by Night, fails to deliver anything interesting, compelling, or original.
Sameen Amer
Live by Night is a hubristic endeavour from a filmmaker who should have known better. Mar 8, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Live by Night is a hubristic endeavour from a filmmaker who should have known better.
Christopher Preston
Live By Night suffers for trying to do too much. Even with a running time over two hours, it manages to feel overstuffed; one suspects that Affleck the writer got hung up on trying to preserve too much of the source material. Feb 13, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Live By Night suffers for trying to do too much. Even with a running time over two hours, it manages to feel overstuffed; one suspects that Affleck the writer got hung up on trying to preserve too much of the source material.
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