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Afflecks' Gone Baby a Real Coup

Posted Oct 19, 07 4:48 PM CDT in US,  Gossip,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Ben Affleck “emerges triumphant” from his directorial debut, Rolling Stone says in reviewing Gone Baby Gone, out today and already a critics' darling. “It's one of the best crime movies of this decade,” the Hollywood Reporter raves. Younger brother Casey stars as a PI searching for a missing girl in a story brimming with “genuine moral complexity,” the Village Voice says.

Ben Affleck “gets richly detailed work from an outstanding cast,” Rolling Stone says. The Times heaps particular praise on Amy Ryan, whose “gutsy, sensational” performance as the girl’s crackhead mother “pushes our sympathies to breaking point.” The Seattle Post-Intelligencer calls the story, based on a Dennis Lehane novel, “patently implausible,” but the New York Post calls its conclusion “a real talker.”

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Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan co-star as Guy and Girl Fridays trying to track down a missing 4-year-old girl in "Gone Baby Gone."   (KRT Photos)
"Gone Baby Gone" director Ben Affleck waves at the Los Angeles premiere of the film, Monday, Oct. 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)   (Associated Press)
"Gone Baby Gone" director Ben Affleck, left, poses with his brother, cast member Casey Affleck, at the Los Angeles premiere of the film, Monday, Oct. 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)   (Associated Press)
Casey Affleck stars as a Guy Fridays trying to track down a missing 4-year-old girl in "Gone Baby Gone."   (KRT Photos)
From left, Morgan Freeman and Casey Affleck are among what critics are hailing as an outstanding cast.   (KRT Photos)
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