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Shot Caller

2017

Ric Roman Waugh

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lake Bell, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Donovan ...

6.2

4,042

Thriller. Drama A newly released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Vonder Haar Village Voice	"'Shot Caller' is Coster-Waldau’s show, and he’s up to the task. Harlon’s transition is a depressingly plausible one"	POS
United States	Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter	"The prison scenes are extremely well done (...) [Waugh] knows how to stage and edit action scenes compellingly (...) 'Shot Caller' may cover little new ground but navigates familiar terrain with considerable skill."	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"Involving yet trivializing (...) 'Shot Caller' effectively conveys the vise grip of Jacob’s options, but that doesn’t make it less ludicrous from scene to scene."	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"It’s a genre movie, to be sure, but there’s an impressive sense of authenticity (...) 'Shot Caller' is all about potential energy, and that lends it an unexpected but welcome seriousness."	POS
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"A highly watchable study of an ordinary man (...) Coster-Waldau does a top-notch job (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Vikram Murthi rogerebert.com	"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 (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"A film that never fails to involve the viewer in the choices Jacob makes (...) With an electrifying centerpiece performance by Coster-Waldau (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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