Movie of My Week: "The Town" (2010)
Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 10:13AM 
I would say that, after Michael Mann's "Heat," this is my favorite heist-type movie, in large part because I know the scenery so well after living in Cambridge, Somerville, Boston, and Quincy, plus my wife Vonne worked the North End and Charlestown as a social worker (big Dennis Lehane fan, she).
And yes, us "tunies" lost several car radios over the late 1980s.
Great acting all throughout, with a number of locals playing versions of themselves. Plus Rebecca Hall is always amazing, as is Jeremy Renner (nominated). Blake Lively was also a nice surprise.
I think Ben Affleck is going to have a long career as a director, after "Gone, Baby Gone" and this. Just solid work throughout on the action, character scenes, the whole shebang. Eventually, he has to do a movie that's not about Boston, but until he does, I will still see them all.
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