Hat's all, Folks: Live By Night, reviewed.
Chris Klimek
Elle Fanning and Ben Affleck face off. (Claire Folger/Warner Bros.)
My NPR review of Live By Night, writer/producer/director/star Ben Affleck's second adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel, is here. It aspires to be a sweeping period gangster film in the tradition of The Godfather, Once Upon a Time in America, Miller's Crossing, and so many others, but it tries to bite off too much of Lehane's book to really resonate. It's the weakest of the four films Affleck has directed. Too bad.