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Live by Night
2016
· Movie
· 129 min
D
MEANRANK
57/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4490
- IMDb #3705
- Google retired #2658
- Rotten Tomatoes #4397
- Metacritic #3403
- Letterboxd #4505
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4531
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4471
- Metacritic Critics #3473
- Metacritic Audience #3021
- Criticker #3209
- Kinopoisk #3910
- AlloCiné #2639
- Trakt #3264
Every rating
33–80
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 33, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 42, everyone else 60.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A World War I veteran turns his back on his police chief father's law-and-order world and becomes a bootlegger. He rises through the ranks of the criminal underworld during the Prohibition era, moving to Florida to run his own rum-running operation. His ambitions lead him into conflicts with the KKK, rival gangs, and his own moral code.
Details
- Director
- Ben Affleck
- Writer
- Ben Affleck
- Based on
- Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
- Released
- 25 December 2016
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $90.0M
- Box office
- $22.7M
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