Both Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner have been part of superhero teams, thanks to Affleck's turn as Batman in the DC Snyderverse and Renner's lengthy stint as Hawkeye in the "Avengers" films. But in 2010, the pair had a team-up of their own in a now-classic thriller that just missed our list of the best heist movies of all time. And it also happens to have just been made available for streaming on HBO Max.
Affleck writes, directs, and stars in "The Town" as Doug MacRay, leader of a team of professional criminals whose latest bank robbery sees them take a young woman named Claire (Rebecca Hall) hostage. After the ordeal is over — when the gang makes off with the loot and Claire is set free — MacRay begins an unlikely romance with the woman, who has no idea that he's really a member of the ga

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