Full Price Feature
If you, like me, were perplexed and put off by the ads and posters for The Town (think cars full of weird, wrinkly nun figures as the only salient image), please rectify your loss and see it if you can. Star and director Ben Affleck has given us a film with a great premise and execution and a load of solid performances. The titular town is Charlestown, a neighborhood in Boston famous for producing bank robbers and thieves. Affleck plays one of these local lowlifes, rolling with a tight-knit crew that includes human powderkeg Jeremy Renner. The grungy charm of these men belies the laserlike efficiency of their bank jobs. And by bank jobs, I don’t mean that they are tellers.