Shot Caller
Altitude Film Entertainment | Release Date: August 18, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
2
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
ObserverRex ReedAug 18, 2017
Unflinchingly written and directed by Austin, Texas-based filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh, it’s too unnerving to recommend to the squeamish, but for anyone curious enough to find out what really happens to turn decent people into savages in the bedlam of the American prison system, this is one for the must-see list. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeAug 18, 2017
It’s a genre movie, to be sure, but there’s an impressive sense of authenticity — in the language, the locations and the overall texture —that goes a long way to sell the scenario. Read full review
70
Village VoicePete Vonder HaarAug 15, 2017
Shot Caller is Coster-Waldau’s show, and he’s up to the task. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberAug 3, 2017
Shot Caller may cover little new ground but navigates familiar terrain with considerable skill. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAug 16, 2017
The whole film rests on the increasingly prison-ink tatted shoulders of Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones’ Jaime Lannister, who brings his A – as in ass-kicking – game to Waugh’s film. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 24, 2017
Despite being sold and marketed as a thriller, the most interesting aspects of Shot Caller are the dramatic ones. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comVikram MurthiAug 18, 2017
Despite its unabashed fondness for clichés and tired tropes, Shot Caller mostly succeeds in its aims because of Waugh’s sober, matter-of-fact approach to the material. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleAug 17, 2017
It always feels like an exercise instead of an examination, a flow chart of bad decisions and explosive violence that may not glorify the poisonous nature of hard time but rarely skims below the surface of what it means to break bad. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergAug 17, 2017
Shot Caller effectively conveys the vise grip of Jacob’s options, but that doesn’t make it less ludicrous from scene to scene. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 24, 2017
Shot Caller is an overlong brutally clumsy attempt to have it both ways. Read full review
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