'The Way Back' - Review Thread
Rotten Tomatoes: 67% ( 9 reviews)
Metacritic: [69]
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter
It's meant as a firm compliment to say that The Way Back looks and feels like a film that could have been made at any time between the early 1970s and right now.
Beneath the authenticity of its staging, there's a moralistic simplicity to "The Way Back." The film is too programmatic an illustration of how bad things happen to good people.
Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press
Grade: 2.4/4 Affleck carries the film well on his larger-than-usual shoulders, capably showing all sides of a down-on-his-luck alcoholic - the funny, the sweet, the explosive and the self-destructive.
It's neither happily hokey tear-jerking sports movie nor low-to-the-ground, unforgiving indie about an alcoholic. It's stuck in some awkward space between those tropes: not roundly poignant and not unflinching enough.
Grade: B+ It's a reminder that the most trite material-in this case, getting a second chance at making good-can be powerful when handled honestly.
Jake Kring-Screifels, The Film Stage
Grade: B+ Ben Affleck is going for it in a way that suggests he already has before, just never on the screen.
The Way Back is a film stuck on the runway, quietly circling around, always threatening to fly but never managing to get off the ground.
A rich character drama about loss, addiction and self-destruction that only incidentally focuses on the business of life lessons and whipping a ragtag team of misfits into a winning ball club.
Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times
O'Connor finds ways to keep viewers subtly off guard; just when you think "The Way Back" will turn into a Big Game movie, it reverts to being an addiction drama (and then goes back again).
DIRECTOR
Gavin O'Connor
WRITER
Brad Ingelsby and Gavin O'Connor
MUSIC
Rob Simonsen
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Eduard Grau
EDITOR
David Rosenbloom
Release date: March 6, 2020
Budget: $25 million
STARRING
• Ben Affleck as Jack Cunningham
• Janina Gavankar as Angela
• Michaela Watkins as Beth
• Hayes MacArthur as Eric
Submitted March 04, 2020 at 09:12PM by hildebrand_rarity https://ift.tt/2TzKixv
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