The Finest Hours reviews

I’ve seen The Finest Hours twice and completely fell under Casey’s spell. Here are some excerpts from reviews that have his name in the intro on rottentomatoes. Such a shame so few people got to see his wonderful performance in it. I pray, pray Triple 9 will have a better opening this weekend.

http://www.flickfilosopher.com/2016/02/the-finest-hours-movie-review-that-sinking-feeling.html
Affleck is the very best reason to see this (as is also true of Triple 9; he’s on a roll at the moment): he looks like a Golden Age screen god here, and he exudes a classic cinematic masculinity, all laconic and pragmatic can-do; the actor moves to a whole new level of presence and performance with this role.

http://www.metro.us/entertainment/the-finest-hours-is-almost-an-unusually-tough-disney-drama/zsJpaz---NetinUQKnoI/
Scenes of crazy plans being hatched and enacted are the best parts of “The Finest Hours,” in part because it gives us Casey Affleck. A technician and resident cucumber cool braniac, his Ray is not just the crews’ savior but is played by the only performer doing anything interesting. It’s like he’s been airlifted in from a movie where everyone’s a Method actor. Introspective and prone to mumbling, the still superior Affleck slips unpredictable moments into a film that should be, and sometimes is, simple. He lets out a gallows humor laugh when announcing the ship is definitely sinking, and cracks a big grin when someone grumbles about a plan that will either save or kill everybody.

http://screencrush.com/the-finest-hours-review/
For decades, there’s been a clear delineation of roles in the Affleck clan: Ben’s the leading man, Casey’s the character actor. Ben has the perfect chin and lustrous hair, not to mention the major height advantage. (He’s almost six inches taller than Casey, according to IMDb.) In the rare cases when Casey Affleck takes a central role in a film, it’s almost always in material that explores the unlikelihood of a guy like him becoming a hero (think The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford or Gone Baby Gone). That’s not the case in the new historical adventure The Finest Hours. There’s nothing quirky or unconventional about Affleck’s charisma here. Even with a more traditional leading man co-anchoring the story and serving as its de facto protagonist, Affleck commands the screen with steely resolve and smoldering eyes. At 40 years old, he’s blossomed into a full-fledged movie star...
A lot of stuff is left unsaid, most of all by Affleck, who gives a magnetic performance worthy comparison to great Hollywood brooders like Montgomery Clift. These are certainly some of his finest hours as an actor.