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Live by Night
These are the events of Dennis Leshan's novel of the same name. The film begins with a series of powerful events that speak of a group of individuals and their dealings in organized crime. It is a series of criminal operations that have completely changed the meaning of crime.
28 December 1981, New York City, New York, USA
7 November 1964, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
9 May 1974, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
27 September 1965, New York City, New York, USA
19 June 1978, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
7 January 1963, Barnesville, Ohio, USA
29 April 1983, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
May 4, 1966 in Berkeley, California, USA
21 May 1984, Shiraz, Iran
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
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
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.
February 20, 2017
Live By Night is a far better film than it's been given credit for.
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.
February 23, 2017
If Sad Affleck didn't already exist, Live By Night might've made the meme happen anyway.
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.
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.
January 13, 2017
Live by Night is a solid, interesting but sprawling and often overwrought gangster picture.
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.
January 13, 2017
A footnote in the history of cinematic mob stories.