Patrick Radden Keefe lays the blame for so many bad Boston movies at the feet of the Boston accent and finds Ben Affleck's quest for linguistic and visual authenticity in Gone Baby Gone worthy if perhaps too diligent: "In an effort to cast aside the Hollywood airbrush, Affleck has zoomed
in on the freakish underbelly of Boston and somewhat overstated the
case. The result is not so much what Mean Streets did for New York as what Deliverance did for Appalachia."
Another funny line: "Consider, if you will, the embarrassing hilarity that tends to ensue when my dear father, unapologetic owner of a medium-thick Boston brogue, returns an off bottle of wine at a restaurant because "I know the taste of cork. And this tastes like cork.""
