Ben Affleck has the buffed teeth and squared shoulders of an early matinee idol, and like many screen stars who flicker more than they blaze, he has scraped by on smooth looks and twinkly amiability. The critical ingredient he lacks is presence, and that’s why, in a new film about the perils of Hollywood in the 1950s, Affleck gives his finest performance yet as George Reeves, a bit player of the 1940s and early ’50s who reached for the stars and got stuck instead with television. An affable corn-fed Iowan with a murky family history, Reeves got his break in 1939 as one of the Tarleton brothers who fawned... More >>>