Ben Affleck won Best Original Screenplay with Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting at twenty-five, and then spent the early 2000s as a tabloid figure in films including Gigli and Pearl Harbor.
Hollywoodland began the recovery and Gone Baby Gone, his directing debut, completed it. Argo won Best Picture.
The Town and The Last Duel show him working well as an actor inside his own material, and he is very good in the small role in Air.
He has been open about alcoholism and treatment, and the Batman period is generally agreed to have been an unhappy one for him.
Ben AffleckShakespeare in Love (1998) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A genuinely witty romantic comedy with a superb Tom Stoppard screenplay, which beat Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture through the most studied campaign in Academy history…
Ben AffleckGone Girl (2014) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Gillian Flynn adapted her own novel and took a hammer to her own third act. Fincher shot it entirely in one small Missouri town for sixty-one million dollars,…
Adam DriverRidley Scott's 2021 fourteenth-century rape trial drama. Damon, Driver, Affleck, Comer.
Ben AffleckRichard Linklater's 1993 last-day-of-school 1976 ensemble. Affleck, McConaughey, Adam Goldberg breakthroughs.
Al Pacino2003 Martin Brest crime comedy with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Career-damaging flop during Bennifer tabloid frenzy.
Alan ArkinBen Affleck directed and starred. The film adapts the historical events of the 1980 Canadian Caper, when six American diplomats escaped the Iranian hostage crisis through a CIA operation involving a fake Hollywood production.
Ben AffleckBen Affleck's Charlestown Boston heist film. Jeremy Renner Oscar-nominated.
Aaron EckhartThe 10 rating reflects honest evaluation that critics never gave the film. Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a reverse engineer specializing in proprietary technology.
Ben AffleckArmageddon is Michael Bay's most complete expression of Michael Bay: maximum volume, minimum coherence, emotional manipulation deployed at maximum intensi. The scientific inaccuracies in Armageddon are not the casual inaccuracies of a film that chose story over accuracy.
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