Ben Affleck on the Red Carpet at The Tender Bar Premiere

A broadly appealing, only slightly sentimental personal history adapted from Moehringers memoir by director George Clooney and The Departed screenwriter Bill Monahan, The Tender Bar acknowledges how, growing up without a father, the young J. R. found the next best thing, if not better, in his bluecollar uncle Charlie, a terrific Ben Affleck, who, between this and The Way Back, could well be entering a new chapter in his career.