Charlie Victor Romeo
| Release Date: January 29, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJan 31, 2014
The ritualized presentation of these disasters... adds up to a kind of unsettling spiritual experience, a communion with the dead that demands the quiet participation of a group Read full review
80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJan 29, 2014
It is a curious hybrid of documentary and experimental theater. It is also one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen. Read full review
80
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekJan 28, 2014
Charlie Victor Romeo shows us how much of life's weight and meaning can be packed into one second of thought or action; it's a work of shivery intimacy. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergJan 29, 2014
Whatever reservations it prompts, the film is innovative, original, and queasily effective. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineWes GreeneJan 27, 2014
The film's tension doesn't come from the why or how, but more from the idea that one becomes so settled into habit that seemingly nothing is capable of interfering. Read full review
70
NPRMark JenkinsJan 31, 2014
That the same performers keep returning in different roles, playing Peruvian and Japanese flyers as well as American ones, only adds to the sense of man as machine. Everything, and everyone, must run like clockwork. Yet no apparatus is foolproof. Read full review
70
VarietyJohn AndersonJan 31, 2014
The screenwriter/playwrights have processed the characters’ last words in ways that imbue them with as much humanity as possible. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinJan 30, 2014
A unique, unsettling experience. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJan 30, 2014
As seen in Charlie Victor Romeo (code for “Cockpit Voice Recorder”), the events are almost unbearably gripping. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichJan 28, 2014
Charlie Victor Romeo would probably work best as a training tool for commercial airline pilots (the play, interestingly, has already been used in this fashion by the Pentagon). In a movie theater for a paying crowd, it’s little more than minimalist snuff. Read full review
40
The DissolveMatt SingerJan 28, 2014
The small company of actors make convincing pilots, flight attendants, and air-traffic controllers, but their activities, tragic and brave though they may be, quickly grow monotonous. Read full review
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