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Film Review ‘The Way Back’ Review: On the Rebound Ben Affleck stars as an alcoholic brought in to coach his alma mater’s failing basketball team. Watch a clip from the movie ‘The Way Back

4 Mar 2020 From the moment it was first announced, The Way Back was setting itself up to be a powerful film. A movie about a man's battle with alcoholism  13 Mar 2020 The Way Back. 2020, R, 108 min. Directed by Gavin O'Connor. Starring Ben Affleck, Janina Gavankar, Rachael Carpani, Lukas Gage, Hayes 

09/07/41 · But there’s one way that it raises the bar: There have been many films about alcoholism, and based on our knowledge of what Affleck has been through, we go into “The Way Back” eager to touch a raw nerve of experience. It’s there, at moments, in Affleck’s performance, and the film is well-staged by director Gavin O’Connor.

24 Mar 2020 'The Way Back' Film Review: Ben Affleck Battles His Demons in Tough-Minded Sports Saga. 11 Mar 2020 Note: This review contains spoilers. The new Ben Affleck movie, “The Way Back,” is a disappointing new version of the “Rocky” plot. In it, Affleck  6 Mar 2020 "The Way Back" is being promoted obscenely, using Affleck's personal struggles with alcoholism and sobriety to sell the film's premise. This pity  Looking for movie tickets? Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing The Way Back (2020) near you. ENTER CITY, STATE OR ZIP CODE GO   5 Mar 2020 Review: Ben Affleck triumphs in 'The Way Back' with a role that hits the film's only boldface name, “The Way Back” has not been allowed to  18 mars 2020 The Way Back est un film de Gavin O'Connor. Synopsis : Une star du basketball a perdu sa femme et sa famille à cause de son addiction. 10 Mar 2020 'The Way Back' Review The whole film suffers. The path to wellness for many is a long, hard road, and films with the courage to approach 

16/07/41 · It probably would have been a more successful film, but it also would have been a less realistic one. Ultimately, The Way Back is not about how basketball saved a man from his addiction; it’s a movie about surviving the relapse. That’s something Ben Affleck seems to know all too well.

14 Mar 2020 Ben Affleck is absolutely at his best in The Way Back which takes a long A film that takes a long hard look at the effects of loss, addictions to  27 Mar 2020 He began writing articles and film reviews from 2006. Because of his experience, the writer was drawn into the teaching staff of a private  4 Mar 2020 Filed to:Movie Review In Gavin O'Connor's unaccountably strong new drama The Way Back, Affleck plays Jack Cunningham, a man not so  24 Mar 2020 But Affleck is looking to change that and get back to being the movie-star we know him to be and he's starting his own way back in the right way. 4 Mar 2020 Back might not be a great movie, but it does feel like the best thing the actor has done in a long time: a sensitive, sobering character study that  4 Mar 2020 But this R-rated film doesn't try to be autobiographical, and it certainly never tries to be the defining story of alcohol dependency, instead  13 Mar 2020 The Way Back. 2020, R, 108 min. Directed by Gavin O'Connor. Starring Ben Affleck, Janina Gavankar, Rachael Carpani, Lukas Gage, Hayes 

6 Mar 2020 Ben Affleck gives a tremendous comeback performance in The Way Back, a sturdy and sensitive redemption drama. Read our The Way Back 

04/11/32 · The Way Back is the critically acclaimed new release from renowned director Peter Weir (Master and Commander, The Truman Show), starring Colin … With most credit going to the superb Sam Rockwell, The Way Way Back is a funny film set in the nostalgic point in our lives, a story about that one summer when we were younger that for reasons 16/07/41 · The Way Back (2020) Film Review. There is nothing considered flashy or groundbreaking in The Way Back but the film does hold its true convictions to the chest. Nowadays, the washed-up Jack is an alcoholic construction worker that inexplicably left behind a promising future as a gifted high school ballplayer in his youth. Unfortunately, Jack 20/12/31 · The Way Back is an interesting film that looks great, but it is also overly worthy and serious to a point that it is hard to really engage with it because it is hard to reach the characters on the pedestal that Weir puts them on. 09/07/41 · The Way Back thus morphs, for a while at least, into an entirely appealing underdog story, one in which a newly on-the-wagon head coach goads and molds a … 12/07/41 · Film Review: The Way Back. Ben Affleck is good in this mostly tough human drama which, despite a few surprises and subversions, proves so familiar that you just about could have written it yourself. 7 March 2020 by DM Bradley. Cinema; Share

6 Mar 2020 So it's tempting to read his performance as an alcoholic has-been in his latest film The Way Back as some sort of on-screen avatar for his  5 Mar 2020 “Hoosiers” worked the same way, more successfully, but they're kindred movie spirits. Audiences tend to enjoy that sort of tension in their sports  14 Mar 2020 Ben Affleck is absolutely at his best in The Way Back which takes a long A film that takes a long hard look at the effects of loss, addictions to  27 Mar 2020 He began writing articles and film reviews from 2006. Because of his experience, the writer was drawn into the teaching staff of a private  4 Mar 2020 Filed to:Movie Review In Gavin O'Connor's unaccountably strong new drama The Way Back, Affleck plays Jack Cunningham, a man not so 

04/11/32 · The Way Back is the critically acclaimed new release from renowned director Peter Weir (Master and Commander, The Truman Show), starring Colin … With most credit going to the superb Sam Rockwell, The Way Way Back is a funny film set in the nostalgic point in our lives, a story about that one summer when we were younger that for reasons 16/07/41 · The Way Back (2020) Film Review. There is nothing considered flashy or groundbreaking in The Way Back but the film does hold its true convictions to the chest. Nowadays, the washed-up Jack is an alcoholic construction worker that inexplicably left behind a promising future as a gifted high school ballplayer in his youth. Unfortunately, Jack 20/12/31 · The Way Back is an interesting film that looks great, but it is also overly worthy and serious to a point that it is hard to really engage with it because it is hard to reach the characters on the pedestal that Weir puts them on. 09/07/41 · The Way Back thus morphs, for a while at least, into an entirely appealing underdog story, one in which a newly on-the-wagon head coach goads and molds a … 12/07/41 · Film Review: The Way Back. Ben Affleck is good in this mostly tough human drama which, despite a few surprises and subversions, proves so familiar that you just about could have written it yourself. 7 March 2020 by DM Bradley. Cinema; Share 11/07/41 · Manchester was a better film, in part because it didn’ to do too much. The basketball element of The Way Back, although it adds a commercial sheen to the movie, distracts from the character study aspect. Although similarities between The Way Back and Hoosiers are thin, it’s possible to argue there’s too much Hoosiers here. It tricks the

6 Mar 2020 So it's tempting to read his performance as an alcoholic has-been in his latest film The Way Back as some sort of on-screen avatar for his 

17/01/32 · The Way Back is a robustly made picture, heartfelt, well executed with an exhilarating sense of reach and narrative ambition. Where it falls down is a lack of personal intensity to match the 22/10/34 · The Way, Way Back – review 4 / 5 stars 4 out of 5 stars. Everything in this film about a 14-year-old dragged along on holiday with his mum's new boyfriend takes place in a woozy, nostalgic vacuum The Way, Way Back is a 2013 American independent coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash in their directorial debuts. The film stars Liam James as Duncan, a shy 14-year-old who goes on summer vacation to Cape Cod, Massachusetts with his mother and her abusive boyfriend. 09/07/41 · Ben Affleck in ‘The Way Back’: Film Review Ben Affleck is compelling in a drama of addiction and redemption that plays off his own tabloid odyssey. But the tabloid version was better. The Way Back movie review: Ben Affleck delivers one of the best performances of his career and exorcises personal demons in director Gavin O’Connor’s new film. 16/07/41 · “The Way Back” could have depicted and portrayed that the way back from severe alcoholism, from any addiction (including the smartphone you’re reading this review on), is universally about 04/11/32 · The Way Back is the critically acclaimed new release from renowned director Peter Weir (Master and Commander, The Truman Show), starring Colin …