The Company You Keep
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: April 5, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
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20
Mixed:
11
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
ObserverRex ReedApr 2, 2013
It’s only April, but this is one of the best films of 2013. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanApr 4, 2013
Though consistently engaging, Redford’s latest directorial endeavor does feel like a plea. You can almost hear him coaxing us to learn from the past, even as we rush into the future. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyMar 11, 2013
Lent distinguishing heft by its roster of screen veterans, this gripping drama provides an absorbing reflection on the courage and cost of dissent. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaApr 18, 2013
Directed in steady fashion by Redford, The Company You Keep manages to keep its multiple strands of plot - and the people caught in them - from collapsing in a jumble of confusion. This alone, given the whirl of personal and political history going on, is an accomplishment. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanApr 11, 2013
At its core, The Company You Keep is a good, solid thriller about a fugitive trying to clear his name. But it’s a much more interesting movie at the edges. Read full review
75
USA TodayClaudia PuigApr 5, 2013
The stars make this political drama engrossing, despite its few missteps. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversApr 4, 2013
There's enough plot to stuff a miniseries, but Redford never loses sight of the human drama. Martyrdom is not conferred, nor is reinvention equated with redemption. Drawing skillfully on a first-rate cast, Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience. Read full review
70
The New YorkerDavid DenbyApr 8, 2013
Redford’s patient earnestness — not always a virtue in his earlier work as a director — produces something honorable and absorbing. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyApr 4, 2013
The Company You Keep is a shrewder, more satisfying piece of filmmaking than we've seen from Redford in a while, though not quite in the league with his best behind-the-camera work. Read full review
70
NPRMark JenkinsApr 4, 2013
Before settling into such comfortable territory, however, the movie is propulsive and involving. If The Company You Keep is far from radical, it's pretty audacious by the standards of counterrevolutionary Hollywood. Read full review
70
TimeMary CorlissMar 30, 2013
With a welcome mixture of juice and grit, the movie dramatizes the lingering conundrums of young people in the time of the Vietnam morass. Read full review
70
VarietyLeslie FelperinMar 30, 2013
Robert Redford’s unabashedly heartfelt but competent tribute to 1960s idealism. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenApr 25, 2013
This chase film combines elements of the thriller and newspaper procedural to create a contemporary saga about political idealism, stone-cold realities, and the repercussions of past deeds on future innocents. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerApr 5, 2013
Equal parts preachy and melodramatic, The Company You Keep never quite figures out what it wants to be. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsApr 26, 2013
Redford is an adequate director, and he keeps things moving at a moderate pace, passing up exits to more spectacular vistas or hotter issues. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenApr 25, 2013
In The Company You Keep, old radicals never die – they just turn into old actors. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrApr 11, 2013
LeBeouf may yet mature into an American James McAvoy — a charismatically spineless leading man — but Sarandon and her character have him and his character for lunch. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsApr 11, 2013
The movie struggles to turn the story into a paradoxical easygoing thriller, befitting the age bracket of its key ensemble members. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperApr 10, 2013
Despite Redford's sure-handed (but typically stolid) direction, an intriguing premise and a cast filled with top-line talent both veteran and relatively new, nearly every scene had me asking questions about what just transpired when I should have been absorbing what was happening next. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreApr 3, 2013
Robert Redford delivers one last lecture on ’60s idealism and passes another baton to Shia LaBeouf in The Company You Keep, an engrossing thriller about the last anti-Vietnam War radicals still underground. Read full review
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