Why Does Ben Affleck Look So Miserable?

Is Ben Affleck America’s hardest-luck movie star? It’s a largely oxymoronic concept, of course, and the exceptions should probably be applied to those who had stardom in their grasp and lost it in a spectacular fashion, something that seemed within the realm of possibility for Affleck circa 2005 or so, but never became a permanent condition. Yet whether through bad luck, bad decisions, or some ineffable in-between state, Affleck can’t seem to hold fast to a good thing—an