The Town (2010)

The Town rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.5/10· 445K votes

Rotten Tomatoes92%

Metacritic74%

TMDb7.22/10· 6K votes

With 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.5/10 on IMDb and 74/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About The Town

Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.

Cast of The Town

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  Ben Affleck

  as Doug MacRay

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  Jeremy Renner

  as James "Jem" Coughlin

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  Rebecca Hall

  as Claire Keesey

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  Jon Hamm

  as FBI S.A. Adam Frawley

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  Blake Lively

  as Krista Coughlin

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  George Carroll

  as Albert "Gloansy" Magloan

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  Pete Postlethwaite

  as Fergus "Fergie" Colm

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  Owen Burke

  as Desmond "Dez" Elden

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  Titus Welliver

  as Dino Ciampa

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  Chris Cooper

  as Stephen MacRay

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  Dennis McLaughlin

  as Rusty

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  Corena Chase

  as Agent Quinlan

The Town facts

Budget

$37M

Box office

$154M

Our take on The Town

Ben Affleck directs and headlines this 2010 crime drama about Doug MacRay, a career thief sharper than his crew and quietly desperate to leave the life behind. A bank job goes sideways when the group kidnaps a branch manager; assigned to keep tabs on her, Doug finds their relationship deepening—an entanglement that risks exposing him and his crew to the FBI agent closing in. The film grounds its heist tension in a specific working-class milieu and the pull between loyalty and escape. It suits viewers who like character-driven thrillers where the emotional stakes matter as much as the getaways, and anyone drawn to morally tangled crime stories.