From a fellow West Coast film critic who attended the Sunday night DGA screening of George Clooney’s upcoming “The Tender Bar.”
“It’s a poorly made film, and Affleck is merely “charming.” Clooney has Affleck playing his Manhasset bartender character with a conspicuous “Long Island accent,” on top of which his supporting character does nothing but offer pearls of wisdom about this and that. An inconsequential character in an inconsequential movie. Affleck is a big movie star, and remember that he’s a working-class Boston guy. He doesn’t need to do an “accent”. It’s needlessly theatrical.”
Only some non-US influencers, bloggers, and critics have seen the film, and it’s quite obvious that this is going to be one of the worst-reviewed movies of the year.