{"id":1971,"date":"2026-10-08T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2026-10-08T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T23:00:17","slug":"animals-review-ben-afflecks-return-to-thrillers-is-a-boring-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1971","title":{"rendered":"Animals Review: Ben Affleck&#8217;s Return To Thrillers Is A Boring Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the director who made the excellen<em>t Argo<\/em> and <em>The Town<\/em>, Ben Affleck hasn&#8217;t quite hit the high early standards he set behind the camera. His last movie, <em>Air<\/em>, was a critical success, but go back to 2016, and <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/live-by-night-early-reviews-ben-affleck\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Live By Night<\/em> was pretty openly panned<\/a>, and the fact that he initially got cold feet about making Netflix&#8217;s new political crime thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/movie\/animals-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Animals<\/strong><\/em><\/a> was a little alarming.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the director who made the excellent Argo and The Town, Ben Affleck hasn&#8217;t quite hit the high early standards he set behind the camera. His last movie, Air, was a critical success, but go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}