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Air Review: Ben Affleck And Matt Damon's Sports Drama Is Solid, But Very Traditional

Air will play well with the faithful, but outside of the die-hards whose minds are already made up, this game will be seen as respectably played, but not that intensely interesting.

Cinemablend

Don’t Count Out Flex Scheduling Coming to ‘Thursday Night Football’ and Amazon Prime

Insiders expect it to get flex scheduling in May.

Sports Illustrated

Who plays Michael Jordan in AIR?

Though he is not a central character in AIR, who is the actor that plays Michael Jordan in the movie based on the basketball legend?

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Air review: Why does Ben Affleck’s Nike boardroom drama actually exist?

The success of this star-studded sports film depends on how willing audiences are to discard Michael Jordan as a person in favour of Michael Jordan as an idea

The Independent UK

Fact vs Fiction: AIR — did Michael Jordan prefer Adidas to Nike?

Plus, how accurate was AIR about a particular NBA rule and a character’s link to a historic figure. We give you the specifics.

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Michael Jordan’s Illinois Residence Broken Into, per Report

The NBA legend put his Illinois residence on the market back in 2012.

Sports Illustrated

Ben Affleck fans christen him ‘Benito’ after fluent Spanish interview

Bostonian actor learned to speak Spanish aged 13 while living in Mexico

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The power of "Air" gotta be the views

The legendary line of sports apparel gets an easygoing '80s sports origin story that reunites Affleck and Damon

Salon

Ahmad Rashad Has More NBA Inside Stuff With ‘Rewind’

New show streams on NBA app

Broadcasting & Cable

Ben Affleck's playful sports drama Air tells the true story of the Nike executives who won over Michael Jordan

Ben Affleck's Air features an all-star cast, including Matt Damon, Viola Davis, Jason Bateman and Chris Tucker. But we never see the basketball prodigy at its centre.

ABC News

There Are Many Reasons to Go See ‘Air’

The Matt Damon–Ben Affleck movie succeeds on multiple levels.

Sports Illustrated

Why Is Michael Jordan Not Really In Air Anyway? Ben Affleck Explains

Ben Affleck explains why Michael Jordan isn’t seen in his new movie Air.

Cinemablend

The Bristol basketball star who trained with LeBron James and won gold alongside Jayson Tatum

VJ King speaks to BristolLive about his early life, the toughest part of his career so far and getting used to driving in his new home city

Bristol Post

‘Air’ Doesn’t Need Michael Jordan to Soar

In a tense movie about the birth of the Air Jordan, Ben Affleck gets his star-heavy cast to phone it in—to great effect.

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How to watch AIR

Movie fans can now watch AIR, but is the sports drama, which is backed by Amazon Studios, available to stream or only playing in movie theaters?

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Mac Engel: We don’t see Michael Jordan in ‘AIR,’ but he’s clearly the star. That’s why he’s the GOAT.

The new feature length movie about Michael Jordan doesn’t actually include Michael Jordan, much in the same way audiences barely saw the giant fish in "Jaws."

Cinemablend

Air: Where You've Seen The Stars Of Ben Affleck And Matt Damon's New Movie Before

Air has arrived with plenty of stars that you have probably seen elsewhere. Here's why you might recognize them.

The Guardian - UK

Air review – Ben Affleck and Matt Damon drop the ball in Michael Jordan shoe drama

Affleck’s dramatisation of the bid to get Jordan to endorse Nike’s radical new sneaker almost ignores the most compelling character

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The Guardian - US

‘Michael Jordan changed the world’: the true story behind Nike movie Air

Ben Affleck’s buzzy drama tells the story about how Nike transformed into a major force in the sneakers market thanks to a young basketball star

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Air' pits Matt Damon against Viola Davis — guess who wins?

"A shoe is always just a shoe until someone steps into it," a Nike marketer played by Jason Bateman says in "Air," hinting at both the challenge and achievement of the snappy comedy.

Chicago Tribune

‘Air’ review: Damon and Affleck team up for the story of Nike’s pursuit of Michael Jordan

“Air” is a good time, as well as a triumph of sports marketing in every conceivable way. It’s a docudrama — really more of a docucomedy-drama, with workplace banter and zingers for fuel — about how Nike marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro, played by Matt Damon, convinced his boss Phil Knight,…

Los Angeles Times

A new film about Air Jordans almost benched a Black Nike exec. Enter Chris Tucker

Ever since the premiere of its eye-catching trailer during the Super Bowl, “Air” has been generating a lot of positive buzz.

The Independent UK

‘Alright, Will Hunting’: Ben Affleck pokes fun at Matt Damon’s Wordle group with Bradley Cooper

Damon, who stars in Affleck’s new film ‘Air’, called the group ‘very competitive’

Asharq Al-Awsat

A Duo Once More, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon Come Up for ‘Air’

While Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were writing “The Last Duel,” their first screenplay together since their 1997 breakthrough, “Good Will Hunting,” they noticed that something in their winding and usually separate careers had been missing. “I remember my wife said to me one day: ‘I haven’t heard you laugh…

The Independent UK

‘I’m a real actor, this is an art form’: Ben Affleck mistaken for another star in new Dunkin’ Donuts advert

Affleck returned to the coffee chain to promote their new Run campaign

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