Some writer-directors, like Woody Allen, manage to crank out a film a year like clockwork.
Others, like Kenneth Lonergan, take their sweet time.
Its a responsibility he has no interest in taking on.
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Through a carefully measured series of layer-peeling flashbacks, we slowly discover why that is.
The town holds nothing but painful memories for Lee a past hed prefer to move on from but cant.
Affleck has never had a role that matches his minimal, anti-charisma style like this one.
His tendency to be mumbly and awkward and withholding fits his character perfectly.
If all of this makesManchestersound like a three-hankie bummer, it isnt.
There are unexpected moments of humor, redemption, and grace.
Lonergan has given us a masterpiece.
See it, then wait for whatever he does next…in 2022.A
