 | | 1. Changing Lanes | | | Starring: Ben Affleck Samuel L. Jackson Director: Roger Michell | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/17/2006 |  | Changing Lanes - DVD Review By: David Levine - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/8/2009 5:39 PM | |
After watching the trailer for Changing Lanes, I expected a film similar to Steven Spielberg’s road rage drama Duel, where a hatchback and a semi do battle. While Changing Lanes is definitely a clash between two men, much to my surprise, it reaches a deeper and more satisfying level. Changing Lanes is a thought-provoking, sophisticated drama that explores the motivations behind our split second decision-making and the consequences that result. Ben Affleck is Gavin Banek, a young Wall Street attorney on the fast track to becoming partner at his father-in-law’s well-respected law firm. read the full review | |
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 | | 4. Gone Baby Gone | | | Starring: Casey Affleck Michelle Monaghan Director: Ben Affleck | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/11/2009 | User Rating: 5 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Gone Baby Gone - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 2/1/2008 8:25 PM | |
Numerous articles have been written over the years criticizing Ben Affleck's poor choices pertaining to his acting career. Google Gigli if you care to sample some slams. But Affleck's Gone, Baby, Gone should temporarily reverse the negative flow of copy for it finds the first-time filmmaker making a number of intelligent decision from the director's hot seat. His best decision comes early. By adapting novelist Dennis Lehane's Boston-based thriller, Affleck commits to material that fits him like a glove. Affleck adores his hometown -- warts and all -- and Gone becomes as much an ode to the city as Lehane intended. The Gone plot details a bleak search for a kidnapped child. read the full review | |
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 | | 5. Chasing Amy | | | Starring: Ben Affleck Jason Lee Director: Kevin Smith | | Format: DVD Release Date: 12/26/2009 | | User Rating: 5 | | Chasing Amy - DVD Review By: Bradley Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/6/2009 9:42 PM | |
The intro sequence of Chasing Amy, comic book frames of oddly familiar characters, informs us immediately that we are entering the world of Kevin Smith. That world is one over-populated with comic book fanatics, philosophical drug dealers, and ambitionless twenty-somethings. To Smith, the film's director, that world is New Jersey. Like characters found in other recent Gen X movies, Smith's heroes are unjustifiably hip. In Chasing Amy, there are two groups of characters, Jersey boys afraid of the city, and fixtures of the NYC underground. But regardless of background, every character in Chasing Amy is poised with a witty remark or comical/philosophical riff on love or life. read the full review | |
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 | | 6. He's Just Not That Into You | | | Starring: Jennifer Aniston Ben Affleck Director: Ken Kwapis | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 6/2/2009 | | He's Just Not That Into You - Blu-Ray DVD Review By: Brandon Cozart - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 7/9/2009 5:20 AM | | Dating is, perhaps, the oldest game there is. We all play it at some point, devoting countless hours and resources to it, only to fail a majority of the time. We enlist the help of others—friends, books, websites, seminars, etc.—but even with such help we still end up utterly lost. There doesn’t seem to be a fixed set of rules, and when we think we’ve found a set, countless exceptions pop up and throw said “rules” out the window. Aiding and abetting our frustrated attempts are well-meaning friends who encourage us through assurances of our likability, our attractiveness, the other person’s stupidity, etc. So why do we continue to play this game? We play in hopes of finding that ever-elusive thing called love. read the full review | |
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 | | 15. State of Play (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Ben Affleck Russell Crowe Director: Kevin MacDonald | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 1/3/2010 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | State of Play - Blu-Ray DVD Review By: Josh Lasser - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 8/28/2009 7:28 AM | | Anyone who watches the news on even a semi-regular basis sees certainly things highlighted repeatedly – corrupt politicians, corrupt corporations, sex scandals, and the plight of newspaper among these. Russell Crowe's latest Blu-ray release, State of Play, combines all of these laments into a single conspiracy theory-laden political-social-economic thriller. The film, directed by Kevin MacDonald (The Last King of Scotland) and based on a British TV series does its best to be everything to everyone and thereby only succeeds marginally with what could have been a great movie. read the full review | |
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 | | 16. Hollywoodland (HD & DVD Combo) | | | Starring: Adrien Brody Ben Affleck Director: Alan Coulter | | Format: High Definition DVD Release Date: 2/6/2007 | | Hollywoodland - DVD By: Rafe Telsch - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 2/7/2007 10:46 PM | | Although the film is advertised as an investigation into Reeves' death, the truth is the story is about both Reeves and Simo and the parallels in their lives. Both men find themselves unhappy with their own place in life despite having some success (Simo worked for a detective firm before and had a family; Reeves had "The Adventures of Superman"). The parallels become absolutely fascinating as both stories unfold and the similarities of the steps the men go through become so obvious, despite being in different career paths read the full review | |
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 | | 29. Hollywoodland | | | Starring: Ben Affleck Adrien Brody Director: Alan Coulter | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/21/2006 | | Hollywoodland - DVD By: Rafe Telsch - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 2/7/2007 10:46 PM | | Although the film is advertised as an investigation into Reeves' death, the truth is the story is about both Reeves and Simo and the parallels in their lives. Both men find themselves unhappy with their own place in life despite having some success (Simo worked for a detective firm before and had a family; Reeves had "The Adventures of Superman"). The parallels become absolutely fascinating as both stories unfold and the similarities of the steps the men go through become so obvious, despite being in different career paths read the full review | |
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 | | 30. Hollywoodland (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Ben Affleck Adrien Brody Director: Alan Coulter | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/27/2009 | | Hollywoodland - DVD By: Rafe Telsch - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 2/7/2007 10:46 PM | | Although the film is advertised as an investigation into Reeves' death, the truth is the story is about both Reeves and Simo and the parallels in their lives. Both men find themselves unhappy with their own place in life despite having some success (Simo worked for a detective firm before and had a family; Reeves had "The Adventures of Superman"). The parallels become absolutely fascinating as both stories unfold and the similarities of the steps the men go through become so obvious, despite being in different career paths read the full review | |
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 | | 31. Smokin Aces (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Ben Affleck Jeremy Piven Director: Joe Carnahan | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/6/2008 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Smokin' Aces - DVD By: El Bicho - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 4/26/2007 6:17 PM | | As for plot twists and layers of secrets, babies, I've had a harder time finding Waldo. You could see the end coming before your ass got the seat warm. Would this be a waste of your time? Only if you were wasted and had better things to do. If you are stuck in jury duty and it’s on one of those big TVs in the back, it would give you something to bitch about to the other jurors beside the fact that you're in jury duty.
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 | | 32. Smokin Aces (Fullscreen) | | | Starring: Ben Affleck Jeremy Piven Director: Joe Carnahan | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/6/2008 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Smokin' Aces - DVD By: El Bicho - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 4/26/2007 6:17 PM | | As for plot twists and layers of secrets, babies, I've had a harder time finding Waldo. You could see the end coming before your ass got the seat warm. Would this be a waste of your time? Only if you were wasted and had better things to do. If you are stuck in jury duty and it’s on one of those big TVs in the back, it would give you something to bitch about to the other jurors beside the fact that you're in jury duty.
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