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Charlie Countryman

Charlie Countryman (The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman)

2013

Fredrik Bond

Shia LaBeouf, Mads Mikkelsen, Evan Rachel Wood, Rupert Grint ...

5.7

786

Action. Comedy. Romance. Drama. Thriller While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Lowe The Hollywood Reporter	"There’s plenty here to appeal to both the date crowd and crime-movie adherents (...) Drake manages a taut balance between action and romance that’s consistently engaging"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"The result is the most idiotic excess of sex and bloodshed since 'Only God Forgives'. (...) Rating: 0 (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	John Anderson Variety	"There's barely a serious moment in "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman," with the actors offering up vaguely tongue-in-cheek portrayals of characters either too cliched or unpleasant to deserve much else"	NEG
United States	Matt Patches IGN	"[It] is rarely gripping, but its enigmatic nature and overt charm should be enough to keep minds from wandering."	NEU
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"This catastrophe of a movie zigzags drunkenly between action-adventure and surreal comedy with some magical realism slopped over it like ketchup."	NEG
United States	David Crow Den of Geek	"'Charlie Countryman' does many things well, especially casting, but the overall film swings wildly between tones and twists (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"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?'"	NEG

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