Rock the Fenway

The Town

Crit

As I said after Ben Affleck's directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, he has the potential to direct a great film someday, but this is not yet the day. This is a strictly-by-the-numbers heist/buddy/love (which gets in the way of the buddies) story, which doesn't bear a moment's thought about key plot elements (uh, so the FBI stopped surveilling after getting the outlaws in their sights and right before their next heist why, exactly? . . . ), but the numbers are pretty good, and anything that lets us gaze at Rebecca Hall (or, for some, Jon Hamm) and Fenway Park has its undeniable merits.

Trailers

• Hereafter--Clint Eastwood directs Matt Damon in one of those interwoven touched-by-big events stories. 
• Fair Game--Naomi Watts in a sexed-up version of the Valerie Plame story.
• The Tourist--Jolie, Depp, Venice, bullets; 'nuff said.
• Life as We Know It--Death would be infinitely preferable.