Movie: The Town.

(I saw this a week ago so bare with me.)
First, I loved it.
Second, The Town is one of Those movies: the cheap-looking expensive film. The picture is grainy, no fancy suits to be seen, dirty neighborhoods, low-maintenance hairdos, no make up.... Enter various bullet-proof trucks, tons of police man/cars, explosives, ridiculous guns, bank robberies with elaborate vaults, etc.
It's also a movie with much passion involved. Ben Affleck seems to have a knack for producing likable, vulnerable characters and dropping them in a pot of trouble to stew. Perfect.
Sir Affleck plays Doug MacRay, a native to Charleston in Boston. In Charleston is a one-square-mile neighborhood of bank robbers who are damn good at their jobs of driving up to a bank in costume, demanding money, getting the money, and leaving with nary a fingerprint. Doug is one of the good ones.
Lovely Rebecca Hall plays Claire Keesey, a victim of one of Doug & Co.'s many bank jobs. Left completely traumatized by the experience, Doug discovers Claire is practically his neighbor; she lives across the street in a town home. Naturally, Doug decides to follow her to make sure she doesn't go to the FBI.
He watches her at the laundromat, silently folding clothes, even asking him if he has quarters for the dryer. He doesn't. Claire freezes at the sight of dried blood on the collar of her work shirt and Doug is immediately guilty as Claire starts to cry. Sitting just a few feet away, Doug feels obligated to charm a smile back onto her face.
And thus begins the secretive, complex, and most enticing romance to watch on screen.
I'd say more but I'd rather just see the thing again.
Fine, one more thing. Blake Lively can most definitely pull off a lost Boston hoochy, and Jon Hamm can beat the shit out of criminals as an FBI agent.