Though I’m not in the habit of review relatively recent and well-known movies (that reason is articulated here), Ben Affleck’s directorial debut in Gone Baby Gone was so unexpected that I couldn’t ignore it. I, like the vast majority of people following along, have at times dismissed Mr. Affleck as a talentless hack who got […]

We were about to watch The Departed. “This is a great excuse to review something,” I said to myself. And so that’s what I was going to do. But when it was over I said to myself, “What am I supposed to write?” The movie is too recent for it to be socially acceptable to […]