Trailer Mash

Ben Affleck vs. Ethan Hawke and this week's other new movies, all judged solely on their ads

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A week of comebacks and rehabilitations at the movies this week includes a great-looking piece from Ben Affleck, who continues to atone for Daredevil and for supplying one-half of the first-ever compound celebrity sobriquet, without which supermarket tabloids could now no longer understand contemporary romance. ("Bennifer," since you've forgotten.) Mashup created by the ever-sturdy Mac Smullen.

Ever since his George Reeves in the 2006 Hollywoodland, it has been possible to forgive Ben Affleck everything. But that's not enough.

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