2016 · crime · drama · thriller
Live by Night
Directed by Ben Affleck2h 9m2016
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.
Our read: Live by Night (2016) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded crime · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- intense
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How Live by Night feels to watch.
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“You want prohibition-era gangster romance with Florida heat and moral slide.”
Skip it tonight — You need tight pacing; this sprawls through bootleg wars and regret.
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