Gone Baby Gone

There’s more good here than bad. Most of the story unfolds in those grey areas between right and wrong, and Co-Writer/Director/Producer Ben Affleck navigates these grey areas better than many directors, skillfully depicting a crime drama with no easy answers. It’s success is due in large part to the performance of brother Casey, who’s MUCH better here than in The Assassination of Jesse James. There are times when the story gets a little bogged down and “acty”; several key plot-points are delivered in monologues that seem to go on too long. But of all of the debuts of all the directors everywhere, Affleck deserves to be commended for shouldering an extremely difficult subject matter, keeping it real, and making it work.