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Live by Night
The events of that story tell of a series of serious events in the same novel by Dennis Lehan. It is a large collection of criminal events that we live in differently about the film 'Ban Ban', which presents a group of individuals and their dealings in organized crime, where they live in the hope of new crimes.
28 October 1988, El Paso, Texas, USA
12 March 1961, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
26 April 1947, Pontiac, Michigan, USA
13 August 1963, Santa Barbara, California, USA
29 April 1983, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
February 20, 2017
Live By Night is a far better film than it's been given credit for.
January 13, 2017
Here, the outlaw-as-hero trick just doesn't work; we can't both sympathize with Coughlin's moral quandaries and thrill to his crimes.
January 17, 2017
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.
March 23, 2017
And while the story is sprawling, covering a decade, and filled with beautiful settings, costumes, and stars, it just never comes together to be the kind of epic crime drama it's emulating
January 13, 2017
Live by Night is a solid, interesting but sprawling and often overwrought gangster picture.
March 08, 2017
A focused and insightful character study, it's not. But reframed as a genre exercise, a pulpy throwback comic book... the film is an absorbing diversion.
January 13, 2017
It sure looks great - it was lensed by Tarantino regular Robert Richardson - and its gangster-movie tropes are familiar, yet welcome.
March 01, 2017
You can practically feel it straining to become a classic of the genre but in the end, it feels more like Miller's Crossing cosplay than anything else.
January 13, 2017
A footnote in the history of cinematic mob stories.
February 23, 2017
If Sad Affleck didn't already exist, Live By Night might've made the meme happen anyway.
May 09, 2017
That speaks well of Affleck -- the screenwriter -- in demonstrating maturity by offering up more nuanced characters than we generally expect from the average gangster movie. Still, that maturity doesn't mitigate the shortcomings of the film's star.
January 16, 2017
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.
