The Town is a crime thriller starring Ben Affleck, and Jeremy Renner in what seems to be a complicated romantic heist.
5 March 1957, Miami, Florida, USA
5 July 1966, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
January 5, 1987 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
10 March 1971, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
7 January 1971, Modesto, California, USA
1972 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
April1974, Jerusalem, Israel
November 09, 2013
Assured, confident direction by Affleck, terrifically paced action sequences and brilliant use of location turn The Town into a truly enjoyable movie.
September 17, 2010
An autopsy for The Town would list multiple causes of death.
September 17, 2010
Affleck's direction is clipped when the plot requires, but he lingers on character-driven scenes (at a garden, a restaurant, a corner) in no apparent rush. Why hurry, after all? He's arrived.
October 12, 2010
Affleck’s sophomore offering contains plenty of pay-offs and a slick narrative structure, easily solidifying his growing reputation as a director with the right stuff for a familiar good time.
April 28, 2015
I don't know if you've heard this already, but Ben Affleck happens to be from Boston.
November 05, 2011
'The Town' hits not one false note, despite a plot that easily could have come across as contrived.
September 23, 2012
Action can be difficult for someone not experienced with it. Yet, Affleck shows that he's more than up to the task.
January 29, 2013
One of the great modern heist pictures.
September 22, 2010
Feels all but indistinguishable from the thousands of similar films that have blazed a trail before it.
January 05, 2014
The Town may not be perfect, but Affleck does a lot of things right, including picking some great actors and letting them do their jobs to deliver fine performances.
