The Town

I kept hearing rave reviews about The Town. It's the movie that supposedly jumpstarted Ben Affleck's career (in conjunction with Gone Baby Gone); it highlighted Affleck's directorial prowess; Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) gives another amazing performance; it's authentic and thrilling...And yes, it's all those things, but it's definitely not a night out on the town. It's a slow-paced drama that left my mind wandering.

I can't definitively state whether this movie is authentic, but it's seems so.  From the accents to the Red Sox fan-gear, this movie, like all of Affleck's other creatively-helmed movies (Good Will Hunting, Gone Baby Gone), is an ode to working-class Boston.  In this case, it's about a band of brothers (in the figurative) that also moonlight as a bank-robbing crew.  Unfortunately, they've got Jon Hamm (Mad Men) and the rest of the FBI on their trail.