Live by Night's reviews
Media reviews
Rolling Stone
There?s enough here for half a dozen movies, and you can feel the severe overcrowding. But you can't keep your eyes off it.
Variety
The film is sharply written and crafted, lavishly photographed, impeccably acted, with lots of twists and turns ? yet for all that, it somehow lacks zing
Los Angeles Times
The movie is handsomely mounted with upscale production values, but it feels sluggish and disjointed.
Screen Crush
Live by Night is a very mixed bag: Earnest, handsome, even passionate ? and also slow, digressive, and a little bland.
The Guardian
By the end of a long two hours, there?s not much life left.
Empire
A handsome period drama with the occasional impressive flourish, but despite its rich subject matter, it's Affleck?s weakest film yet as a director.
The Playlist
Labelling Live By Night a disaster is a little uncharitable; the baggy drama is perhaps more painfully mediocre than full-blown folly, but it?s close.
The Wrap
The period detail is rich and worth watching, and there?s a deep bench of strong character actors to give the movie occasional jolts of life. Overall, however, the usually charismatic Affleck never manages to bring gangster Joe Coughlin to life.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote