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 ...

Ben Affleck stars as a hard-drinking high school basketball coach chasing redemption in Gavin O'Connor's drama 'The Way Back.' By Todd McCarthy It’s meant as a firm compliment to say that The Way Back ...

Ben Affleck eases persuasively into The Way Back, a sports/redemption drama that’s playing way below his level — and into the role of Jack Cunningham, a former high school hoops star who once passed ...

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 ...