In the new sports drama The Way Back, Ben Affleck stars as a high school basketball coach who's wrestling with some demons. A star player in high school, Jack Cunningham turned down a scholarship to ...

Affleck's underplayed performance as an alcoholic basketball coach might be the most personal work he’s ever done on screen. Modern Hollywood’s messiest comeback artist is finally ready to show his ...

Ben Affleck stars in this film that has the outward trappings of an inspirational sports drama, but is primarily a recovery movie. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Ben Affleck is compelling in a drama of addiction and redemption that plays off his own tabloid odyssey. But the tabloid version was better. In “The Way Back,” Ben Affleck, somber and looming, with a ...

Ben Affleck shoots, often scores and most importantly slam dunks a seriously gripping role in his new basketball drama “The Way Back.” Though it's chock-full of sports-movie tropes – and juggling too ...

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“The Way Back” could have been as by the numbers as its title, a name that telegraphs a need to be redeemed, to rebound from adversity. But it isn’t. Muscularly directed by Gavin O’Connor, whose ...

Ben Affleck knows full well that people will draw parallels between his life and his role as an alcoholic construction worker turned high school basketball coach in his new film, “The Way Back.” “You ...

With The Way Back, director Gavin O'Connor (Warrior, Miracle) has prepared a very familiar and very comforting, audience-pleasing stew. Sports movies have long been, throughout the broad history of ...

Ben Affleck stars as a hard-drinking high school basketball coach chasing redemption in Gavin O'Connor's drama 'The Way Back.' By Todd McCarthy It’s meant as a firm compliment to say that The Way Back ...