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The Counselor raises expectations with its talented cast and creative crew -- then subverts them with a wordy and clumsy suspense thriller that's mercilessly short on suspense or thrills.
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It's filthy, nasty, sexy, absurd, appalling, and exhilarating, and it succeeds as a musky union of novelist Cormac McCarthy's bleakness and Ridley Scott's sense of chic. Dec 10, 2013 | Full Review…
It's filthy, nasty, sexy, absurd, appalling, and exhilarating, and it succeeds as a musky union of novelist Cormac McCarthy's bleakness and Ridley Scott's sense of chic.
Wesley Morris
It is well worth seeing. But it is the product of a clash between two very different sensibilities, those of its author, Cormac McCarthy, and its director, Ridley Scott. Nov 15, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It is well worth seeing. But it is the product of a clash between two very different sensibilities, those of its author, Cormac McCarthy, and its director, Ridley Scott.
David Sexton
The narrative pings around as meaninglessly and entertainingly as a pinball machine at first, but the comic timing feels off ... Nov 14, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The narrative pings around as meaninglessly and entertainingly as a pinball machine at first, but the comic timing feels off ...
Peter Bradshaw
An inert, dispiriting, detached, disjointed, counterfeit and clumsy film ... Nov 14, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
An inert, dispiriting, detached, disjointed, counterfeit and clumsy film ...
Adam Lee Davies
It's just a very bad idea for a film, proficiently executed. Nov 14, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
It's just a very bad idea for a film, proficiently executed.
Robbie Collin
A great writer's pompous idea of pulp fiction, treated with stultifying seriousness by everyone else involved. Nov 12, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A great writer's pompous idea of pulp fiction, treated with stultifying seriousness by everyone else involved.
Guy Lodge
The Counselor is a colossal waste of (mostly) talented pretty people, revealed as mere puppets to over baked material, and perhaps evidence that great prose does not always translate into great screenplays. Aug 27, 2019 | Full Review…
The Counselor is a colossal waste of (mostly) talented pretty people, revealed as mere puppets to over baked material, and perhaps evidence that great prose does not always translate into great screenplays.
Nicholas Bell
The Counselor is a horrifying reminder that even the best of us are capable of bad, bad things. Aug 27, 2019 | Rating: F | Full Review…
The Counselor is a horrifying reminder that even the best of us are capable of bad, bad things.
Ryan Syrek
The Counselor has too much dialogue and too many stars all dressed up with nowhere to go. Aug 7, 2019 | Full Review…
The Counselor has too much dialogue and too many stars all dressed up with nowhere to go.
Brian D. Johnson
It's a convoluted mess that is more dull than intriguing. Apr 9, 2019 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
It's a convoluted mess that is more dull than intriguing.
Micheal Compton
Undoubtedly a film peppered with flaws that blows hot and cold from one scene to the next, but despite its many bizarre eccentricities, it still manages to hang together -- just. Mar 5, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Undoubtedly a film peppered with flaws that blows hot and cold from one scene to the next, but despite its many bizarre eccentricities, it still manages to hang together -- just.
Lee Cassanell
The filmmakers seem to have been going for both, but despite their great cast, the characters aren't allowed sufficient breathing room for us to believe in them enough to care. Jan 24, 2019 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
The filmmakers seem to have been going for both, but despite their great cast, the characters aren't allowed sufficient breathing room for us to believe in them enough to care.
Abbie Bernstein
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