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Hear me out Hear me out: why Gigli isn't a bad movie

Published: 25 Jan 2021
Hear me out Hear me out: why Batman v Superman isn't a bad movie

Published: 22 Jan 2021

Warner Bros ordered to pay damages for using businessman's photo in Ben Affleck thriller

Claimant argued his reputation suffered as result of being associated with mafia in 2016 film

Published: 15 Dec 2020

Dwayne Johnson tops Forbes list of world's highest-paid male actors

Netflix now accounts for quarter of all actors’ earnings as the Rock takes home biggest pay packet for second year running

Published: 12 Aug 2020

Week in geek Will the Snyder Cut of Justice League be any better than Joss Whedon's original?

Zack Snyder’s $30m edit for HBO Max could be darker than Whedon’s 2017 film, it could give more screen time to Ray Fisher – or it could just be just as bad

Published: 10 Jul 2020
1 out of 5 stars.

Finding the Way Back review – Ben Affleck redemption drama is far from a slam dunk
1 out of 5 stars.

Affleck plays a depressed drinker whose life is rescued by becoming a basketball coach in this flat, uninspired fable

Published: 8 Jul 2020

2 out of 5 stars.

The Way Back review – Ben Affleck battles booze in half-baked drama
2 out of 5 stars.

A solid turn from the actor as an alcoholic coach can’t save an otherwise uninvolving and underwritten redemption tale

Published: 4 Mar 2020

Week in geek Ben Affleck's Batman was hard to like – but the man himself deserves some empathy

Clearly the role fed into the actor’s private struggles, as it has for other actors, who have struggled in the name of Gotham City

Published: 20 Feb 2020

2 out of 5 stars.

First look review The Last Thing He Wanted review – misfiring Anne Hathaway thriller
2 out of 5 stars.

Mudbound director Dee Rees stumbles with a confused Netflix adaptation of Joan Didion’s political thriller about a conflicted journalist in the 80s

Published: 28 Jan 2020

The most anticipated movies of 2020 The most exciting movies of 2020 – dramas

Paul Thomas Anderson announces his new film, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play a long-term couple and Tom Hanks maximises his awards chances with three releases

Published: 30 Dec 2019
The most anticipated movies of 2020 The most exciting movies of 2020 – crime films and thrillers

The Sopranos gets a prequel, Jennifer Lawrence jumps back into action and Jim Broadbent stars as a real-life cabbie who stole a Goya in next year’s buzziest crime capers and thrillers

Published: 26 Dec 2019

Holy mackerel! Robert Pattinson set to land Batman role

Harry Potter and Twilight star Pattinson said to be frontrunner for part in The Batman, replacing Ben Affleck

Published: 17 May 2019

3 out of 5 stars.

Triple Frontier review – military vets steal big in solid Netflix action thriller
3 out of 5 stars.

Machismo and money intersect in a glossy, mostly compelling film about a high-stakes heist in South America, starring Ben Affleck and Oscar Isaac

Published: 6 Mar 2019

Harvey Weinstein breaks silence – to deny wanting Ben Affleck to play Shakespeare

Disgraced movie mogul issues a rare public statement to reject Gwyneth Paltrow’s assertion he wanted her then-boyfriend to co-star in 1999’s Shakespeare in Love

Published: 20 Feb 2019

Week in geek Will Matt Reeves' The Batman save DC's cinematic universe?

Or will it usher in the superhero studio’s demise? With so many past – often flawed – takes on the Dark Knight, no wonder fans are nervous about meeting his next incarnation

Published: 10 Jan 2019

Film blog From The Accountant to Idiocracy: the films that became hits without anyone noticing

Unmemorable Ben Affleck thriller The Accountant was 2017’s most rented movie in the US. It’s far from the only forgotten film to achieve stealth success

Published: 9 Apr 2018
Hadley Freeman's Weekend column Help! I think I’m turning into Ben Affleck

A celebrity alter ego is a famous person who has a hint of qualities you recognise in yourself, but carries them off perhaps a bit more photogenically

Published: 7 Apr 2018

Published: 7 Apr 2018

Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Paul Feig adopt 'inclusion riders': 'It's just common sense'

Affleck and Damon pledge to use diversity clauses at their production company as Bridesmaid’s director calls it ‘right thing to do’

Published: 13 Mar 2018

Week in geek Bye bye Batman: should Ben Affleck bow out as the caped crusader?

Justice League’s weak box office performance spotlights Affleck’s tricky position – whether to limp on, or join the order of failed dark knights

Published: 21 Nov 2017
1 out of 5 stars.

Justice League review – dour and wooden beneath the wisecracks
1 out of 5 stars.

Joss Whedon’s quips sit ill with Zack Snyder’s leaden direction, while Ben Affleck makes for an unconvincing Batman in this dire DC offering

Published: 19 Nov 2017

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