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 ...
“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 ...
Less a tour-de-force sports drama than one man’s journey towards redemption and sobriety, “The Way Back” marks director Gavin O’Connor’s first sports film since his 2011 mixed martial arts drama, ...