When you begin watching Light of My Life, you might feel like you’ve seen this movie before, or at least a variation of it. If you are like me, you’ll feel like this is a mixture of The Road meets Leave No Trace meets A Quiet Place meets Children of Men. After reading several different reviews, many other critics have a similar sentiment. Somewhere in the not-too-distant future, we are in a post-apocalyptic world where something horrific has already happened, and we are left with inventive survivors who are left to pick up the pieces and make a semblance of their new lives. In these types of movies, we learn that what has happened to get us to this point will slowly be revealed throughout the movie, often through flashbacks, one of the tools used in this Casey Affleck-directed film.
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Argo (2012)
Ben Affleck continues to hone his craft as a masterful director while re-establishing himself as one of Hollywood’s leading men on the screen. After some misfires (Pearl Harbor, Daredevil) and downright flubs (Gigli, Surviving Christmas) during the early part of the decade, Affleck stepped to the other side of the camera for the first time and directed the critically acclaimed Gone Baby Gone. In 2010, he directed and starred in the stirring action-drama The Town. As great as both of those movies were, Affleck was not recognized for either with an Academy Award nomination. That will change this year as Argo is destined for Best Picture and Best Director Academy Award nominations.
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