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Live by Night
Directed by
Ben Affleck
R
2017
2h 9m
Drama
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Crime
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6.4
35%
42%
6.3
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A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
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Cast of Live by Night
Ben Affleck
Joe Coughlin / Director / Screenplay / Producer
Elle Fanning
Loretta Figgis
Brendan Gleeson
Thomas Coughlin
Chris Messina
Dion Bartolo
Sienna Miller
Emma Gould
Zoe Saldaña
Graciella Suarez
Chris Cooper
Chief Irving Figgis
Remo Girone
Maso Pescatore
Anthony Michael Hall
Gary Smith
Titus Welliver
Tim Hickey
Derek Mears
Donnie Gishler
Max Casella
Digger Pescatore
Robert Glenister
Albert White
Chris Sullivan
Brendan Loomis
J.D. Evermore
Virgil Beauregard
Tom Virtue
Doctor
Benny Ciaramello
Paulo Bartolo
Matthew Maher
RD Pruitt
Bruno Amato
Jeff
Michael Mantell
Jack Jarvis
Live by Night Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
It's more concerned with flattering our modern sensibility than truly plunging us into the mores of the 1920s.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
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.
The Atlantic
David Sims
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.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Affleck the director has a good eye for detail, but he was let down by Affleck the screenwriter and Affleck the actor, who gives the weakest performance in the film.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
The movie, for all its technical genius, even with such a strong, electrifying cast, just isn't very good, and as such watching it shoot so many blanks for over two full hours is nothing short of a colossal waste of time.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
A footnote in the history of cinematic mob stories.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
It sure looks great - it was lensed by Tarantino regular Robert Richardson - and its gangster-movie tropes are familiar, yet welcome.
CBR
Kristy Puchko
Live By Night feels toothless even as blood sprays and bodies fall.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Misgivings aside, I was enjoying Live by Night as a guilty pleasure of sorts and was on the verge of giving it a qualified recommendation until the last 10 minutes, which are equal parts predictable and way, way over the top.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
Writer-director-star Ben Affleck goes for broke and goes bust with an American tale that mistakes muchness for greatness.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Somber, well-judged and admirably ambitious, "Live by Night" nonetheless falls short of being essential, its familiar moving parts heading predictably toward a conclusion that feels mechanical and preordained.
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
It was always going to be a tricky thing to follow up a smash like Argo, so taut and smart and thrilling. Affleck went maximalist with Live by Night, and it was, indeed, too much.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Squint and you can just catch a trace of what a terrific movie this could have been.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
"Live by Night" may look first-rate (though Affleck's direction, whether it's action or simply two people, seething, is routine) but it feels second-hand.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
It's worth seeing for Affleck's charismatic performance and for its vision of America as a land of greed, violence and political expediency that some moviegoers will find all too familiar.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
People love to pile on Ben Affleck, and "Live by Night" isn't going to help his case.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The problems are a screenplay that can't decide which story to tell, unmemorable casting choices in key supporting roles, and a central performance that, curiously, isn't very much there.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
It's intriguing enough to suck you in, but confusing, fragmentary, frustrating.
Seattle Times
Soren Andersen
Affleck sports plenty of snappy '20s fashions, tailored double-breasted suits, often cream-colored, and elegant Borsalino-style fedoras. He's dressed to kill for sure. Too bad his movie is so deadly dull.
MTV
Amy Nicholson
If there's any surprise in Live by Night, it's how good it feels to watch a gangster battle the KKK in the year 2017.
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