In the new sports drama The Way Back, Ben Affleck stars as a high school basketball coach who's wrestling with some demons. A star player in high school, Jack Cunningham turned down a scholarship to ...

With The Way Back, director Gavin O'Connor (Warrior, Miracle) has prepared a very familiar and very comforting, audience-pleasing stew. Sports movies have long been, throughout the broad history of ...

Ben Affleck stars in this film that has the outward trappings of an inspirational sports drama, but is primarily a recovery movie. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

“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 ...

Ben Affleck is compelling in a drama of addiction and redemption that plays off his own tabloid odyssey. But the tabloid version was better. In “The Way Back,” Ben Affleck, somber and looming, with a ...