Charlie Countryman
Millennium Entertainment | Release Date: November 15, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
6
Negative:
11
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweOct 11, 2013
Fredrik Bond makes a promising feature debut with this fanciful crime-drama romance that gratifyingly eschews strict genre classification. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaNov 15, 2013
Wood, for her part, can appear sad, or seductive, or mysterious, or happy, or lovestruck, or deeply troubled. Gabi is also very good with a gun, so look out. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreNov 12, 2013
The bad guys really stand out, with Mikkelsen pulling off something he never managed as a Bond villain. He’s genuinely frightening. Read full review
60
EmpireDamon WiseFeb 10, 2014
A caper thriller that's sufficiently zippy to hold the attention. LaBeouf's current notoriety adds extra piquancy to those urban fight scenes. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNov 14, 2013
We could have lived without another ’90s-influenced exercise in gritty wonderment. But thanks to a perfectly-matched lead, Shia LaBeouf, the movie makes enough impact to justify its existence. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriNov 18, 2013
However you cut it, with all that talent, Charlie Countryman feels like a sad, wasted opportunity. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergNov 13, 2013
In a film this hapless, it’s hardly a surprise that no one can keep Bucharest and Budapest straight. Read full review
40
Total FilmJames MottramFeb 10, 2014
Mostly, this is empty, ugly and pretentious. Read full review
40
Time OutSam AdamsNov 12, 2013
It’s an engrossing, overstuffed disaster—sometimes captivating, sometimes too ingeniously terrible to turn away from; it’s like watching a car wreck in slow motion, if both cars were stuffed with confetti. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesBruce IngramNov 14, 2013
A dull collection of unlikable, paper-thin characters, all of them stuck in a story that has nowhere interesting to go. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineNick McCarthyNov 12, 2013
An egregious entry into the pantheon of films about white Americans traveling to exotic lands in search of identity and soul-searching adventure. Read full review
33
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezOct 11, 2013
Charlie Countryman opens up with an interesting first section, but only backslides deeper and deeper in its overwrought and incoherent second and third acts. Read full review
30
The DissolveNathan RabinNov 14, 2013
Charlie Countryman feels like the cinematic equivalent of a dodgy first novel, the kind authors write when they’re young and full of romance, hubris, and pretension—then look back on later in life with something approaching mortification. Read full review
30
Village VoiceInkoo KangNov 12, 2013
LaBeouf and Wood don't clang, but they don't quite click, either. That's not enough for the film to persuade us of its message, that love is worth any sacrifice. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyNov 15, 2013
Every now and then, one comes across an indie film that's so showily awful, so drenched in bathos and cliché, and yet features such a uniformly sharp cast that you have to wonder: "What is it with actors?" Or, if one already knows what it is with actors, "Did this material actually look good on paper?" The heavy-sigh-inducing Charlie Countryman is just such a motion picture. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleNov 14, 2013
Pulpy dross of surpassing dumbness, Charlie Countryman takes the blender approach to mixing dark adventure, doofus comedy and pie-eyed romance, but forgets to put the lid on when pulsed. Read full review
10
The New York TimesStephen HoldenNov 14, 2013
This catastrophe of a movie zigzags drunkenly between action-adventure and surreal comedy with some magical realism slopped over it like ketchup. Read full review
10
VarietyJohn AndersonOct 11, 2013
Fredrik Bond’s direction and Matt Drake’s screenplay deliver a charisma-free trip into a world of gratuitous violence, contrivances and tedium. Read full review
0
ObserverRex ReedNov 12, 2013
The result is the most idiotic excess of sex and bloodshed since "Only God Forgives." Read full review
0
Film.comJordan HoffmanOct 11, 2013
A pastiche of bad film cliches and scenes devoid of any real conflict or character development. Read full review
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