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U/A (INDIA)
2013
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Positive Reviews
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2.0
Never the most sentimental of filmmakers, Thelma & Louise excepted, Scott is a fine fit for this tale of cutthroat backdoor business.
Av Club
2.0
Never the most sentimental of filmmakers, Thelma & Louise excepted, Scott is a fine fit for this tale of cutthroat backdoor business.
Av Club
2.0
The Counselor is the celebrated bard of the borderlands first feature film screenplay.
EW
2.5
The film might be a real hoot if everyone had gone over the top, but the actors all seem too awkward and uneasy for that to really happen.
Rogerebert
3.0
Its a punishing process that leaves the audience at the edge of their seats, but exhausted and a little confused, too.
Common Sense Media
3.0
But McCarthys script counteracts these flashes of intensity with hilariously extreme lyrical tangents and curiously theatrical wordplay.
Indie Wire
1.5
The industry is too often intimidated by intellect, and this project bears all the signs of perfectly smart, talented people putting their faith in a ..
Variety
2.5
The Counselor is undeniably unique, and despite its flaws it still stands as a victory for the more artful side of blockbuster cinema (its painstaking ..
We Got This Covered
2.0
Ridley Scott (Gladiator) tried for years to get a film of American novelist Cormac McCarthys bleak, brilliant literary western Blood Meridian off the ..
Time Out
2.0
At which point, we get a long soliloquy about the price, value and meaning of grief.Blah bloody blah.
The Guardian
2.0
Ridley Scotts violent Tex Mex action thriller is all mouth and no trousers.
The Guardian
2.0
The language grabs so much attention that its difficult for director Ridley Scott to make his presence felt, and he largely underserves the gorgeous s ..
The Guardian
3.1
The Counselor doesnt temper enough of McCarthys excesses, but Scott and his ensemble find enough meat in the scenario to make for diverting, bloody pl ..
1.9
Its an actors paradise, all this poetic, run on musing, but it results in a movie that, despite its strenuous efforts to appear hardened and sexy and ..
4.5
Decked out with dark mascara and a gold tooth, Malkina never really transcends a certain movie movie artificiality, and Diaz doesnt always have the ki ..
Screen Daily
2.0
Despite its scaldingly hot cast and formidable writer/director combination, The Counselor is simply not a very likable or gratifying film.
The Hollywood Reporter
3.0
Awful acts and some seriously fine cinematography from Dariusz Wolski ensue.
5.0
Gods fall though, few as mercilessly or memorably as those in The Counselor, a tale of good and evil, but because it was written by Cormac McCarthy, m ..
The New York Times
3.5
The dialogue is delivered so fast and hard, sometimes it takes a second for the jokes to land.
Paste Magazine
4.0
The Counselor is more like a two hour Fassbender audio book than a conventional drama.
IGN
5.0
The story is simple but told with a terse economy that doesnt spoon feed us the narrative.
E Film Critic
2.0
Scott and McCarthy have stirred together a psychologically tangled, erotically charged thriller and then distilled almost everything out of it that co ..
Telegraph
1.5
Met next is the equally enigmatic Westray, played by Pitt and beautifully costumed by director Scotts longtime designer, Janty Yates, to look like a h ..
1.3
McCarthy is snowing us.Evil but silly Cameron Diaz has a vivid role as a misogynistic fantasy, and the polar opposite of Cruz.
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
Ridley Scott finally gets to put Cormac McCarthy on the screen. Its no No Country, but despite its less successful elements is shocking, powerful and ..
2.0
McCarthys violent screenplay might have made for a compelling book.
Cinema Blend
2.0
McCarthys terse, spare books The Road and No Country for Old Men resulted in brutal, gripping movies that didnt say much but packed a wallop.
Ny Daily News
2.0
If only THE COUNSELOR was able to build on this energy it would have been a far more thrilling ride.
JoBlo
3.0
Many will point to Fassbender as the trouble, but Fassbender is fine.
JoBlo
3.5
As the nexus of the film, Fassbender delivers a wicked good performance, punctuated by real gut wrenching moments of drastic emotion.
Screen Rant
1.5
The Counselor is the cumbersome end product of a high minded writer trying to slum and a slick director aiming for cosmic depth.
Village Voice
2.0
Its clunky, too close to being misogynistic, too wordy (the actors are puppets seemingly mouthing the authors ideas) and its too much absorbed with it ..
Sover
2.5
The central story of The Counselor is unremarkable and the thrills it offers are often manufactured rather than organic.
ReelViews
2.0
10 1 6 / 10 Beloved for novels such as No Country for Old Men, The Road, and All the Pretty Horses, author Cormac McCarthy becomes a full fledged Holl ..
Blu Ray
4.0
After more than a decade of trying to make camera shaking, brain dead action hits, he seems to have returned to his proper place as an arthouse direct ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.0
Like Oliver Stones Savages, this tony crime thriller exploits the brutality of the Central American drug trade for shock value but transpires mainly i ..
Chicago Reader
3.8
This is not so much a character study as it is a study of attitude.
Mark Reviews Movies
2.0
a tale so loose limbed parts of the plot have almost been amputated...The films like an elite distant cousin to Michael Bays Pain and Gain.
3.0
Ridley Scotts directed this hop scotching descent into hell as an almost larky adventure before the inevitable foretold darkness creeps in.
1.9
The overwritten script and the ridiculous plot combine to make The Counselor a frustrating experience.
Usa Today
3.1
The film does, as a result, boast the feel of a straight sci fi drama rather than a thriller or a horror effort, with the strong performances, Fassben ..
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
What went wrong I am sad to say, the script by Cormac McCarthy. It just doesnt work. And who can even follow this thing It starts out under the sheets ..
You Tube
1.0
Not just boring boring, but aggressively boring: a film that not so much hates you as dares you to leave.
The Times
2.5
And its certainly guilty of squandering much of its collected talent.
Screen It
2.5
The Counselor a droning meditation on capitalism in the form of a thriller about cocaine trading on the Tex Mex border.
Rolling Stone
1.5
Whatever else happens in this movie, the woman who fucks a car is most audacious, most incomprehensible and the most deeply banal emblem, the limit of ..
Pop Matters
2.0
The Counsellor is a disappointingly dull thriller that wastes a talented cast and fails to generate any actual thrills, though die hard McCarthy fans ..
View London
0.6
The Counselor is a disaster on nearly every level, but it all starts with McCarthys muddled, mean spirited screenplay.
News Day
1.3
For all its endless prattle about morality, The Counselor is a rare movie about drugs that doesnt show drug use or its consequences at least for users ..
New York Post
2.5
So speak the underworld figures in The Counselor, a literary thriller written by Cormac McCarthy and directed by Ridley Scott.
Film Journal International ..
3.0
Ridley Scott directs Cormac McCarthys first project written solely for the screen.
Az Central
3.8
It escalates into a spin through wilder country, and a meditation on bigger themes.
Boston
1.0
McCarthys script is awful, bogged down with leaden dialogue that prolongs scenes for no justifiable reason, without explaining any of the exposition.
Smh
4.0
The Lowdown: A strikingly original collaboration between director Ridley Scott and writer Cormac McCarthy has proven that personal filmmaking can stil ..
Mountain X
2.5
While The Counselor is gorgeously staged and constructed, Scotts slick, straightforward style never quite meshes with the harsh grit of McCarthys obse ..
Npr
1.3
No question about it, the best feature of The Counselor, the borderlands drug drama written by Cormac McCarthy and directed by Ridley Scott, is the ha ..
Star Tribune
2.5
Wait, who IS this guy Where did he come from Did I miss something
Star Tribune
1.5
Almost, but not quite, hilariously demented if accidentally so drama about sex and death, and why not to get involved with drug cartels.
3.8
The sorting out of whos who is occasionally frustrating and always bloody but ultimately achieves a weird sense of poetic justice.
Toronto Star
2.0
Alas, Scott doesnt have the guile of the Coens, and McCarthys script needs major surgery.
Daily Mail
0.5
Its like a mumblecore movie about a bunch of Sarah Lawrence philosophy majors, made by coked up rich people for 100 bajillion dollars.
Salon
1.0
Its the one moment when the movie fully embraces its own ridiculousness.
Slate
2.0
McCarthys script is far too distanced for its own good and requires more from its audience than it is prepared to give back.
Flim List
4.0
Intriguing from the get go, Ridley Scotts superbly directed thriller distinguishes itself by its complex, colourful and mostly bad characters ... Gree ..
2.0
This brutal, depressing, cautionary tale may be an actors dream but its an audiences nightmare.
Susang Ranger
3.5
One of the drums is already open, and the man in coveralls takes out four clear plastic bags, each holding a kilo of cocaine.The worker unscrews the b ..
New Yorker
2.0
The Counselor boasts one of the greatest film directors (Ridley Scott), a first rate cast headed by Michael Fassbender, top notch production values an ..
Boston Herald
2.0
The expensively tailored talent includes Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem and Cameron Diaz.
Express
3.0
This apparent disconnect could be the best reasoning (perhaps excuse) for The Counselors utter, unapolagetic strangeness.
The Film Stage
2.5
The character relationships lack the spark and juice of enjoyable trash.
Chicago Tribune
3.5
The Counsellor review by MaryAnn Johanson Almost, but not quite, hilariously demented if accidentally so drama about sex and death, and why not to get ..
Flickfilosopher
1.0
More than anything else, however, The Counsellor recalls Guy Ritchies legendarily awful Revolver.This is not an allusion to be made carelessly.
The Irish Times
1.5
Every speech marks the cruel power of greed and condemns not just the weakness but the very smallness of mankind.Its derivative nonsense.
Blogs Indie Wire
1.5
The fact that his dialogue is delivered by some of the best looking performers on earth offers a degree of compensation, but after a while even that w ..
Blogs Indie Wire
2.0
Maybe in the hands of another director, McCarthys obtuse screenplay could have come alive, but Scott, however talented he is at helming big studio pro ..
Las Vegas Weekly
4.0
An absorbing thriller that favours vivid characters, profound ideas and Old Testament morals over propulsive plotting and set pieces. With lots of blo ..
Total Film
3.0
For all the inventive horror and salacity here, its all talk in the end.
Standard
3.5
Or is it our greatest strength, giving us the ability enjoy the world around us and realize there is more to life than eating, sleeping and procreatin ..
1.9
But mostly all the knotty talk goes over like a lead balloon.As wry as The Counselor can be in its best moments, its more often numbing.
Groucho Reviews
3.0
For a beautiful film, The Counselor is unbearably ugly, and to little real point.
Hit Fix
3.8
There is a you wont believe your eyes fearlessness to The Counselor that makes it entertaining.
Aisle Seat
3.5
It shouldve been dreamlike and nightmarish, and the admirable serious dramatic depictions given by Fassbender and Cruz shouldve complimented the prope ..
Forbes
2.0
Sena has a nifty knack for playing out major twists in a minor key.
Herald Sun
3.1
It begins the film in Mexico and makes its slow way across the border, changing hands many times, on its way to its destination, somewhere in the U.S. ..
Movie Habit
2.5
This is more a formal accomplishment than a deeply felt human one.
Movie Habit
0.6
To be fair, the material is so weak that Im not sure anyone could have saved it.
Film Freak Central
2.0
Everybody laughs) Agent: I dont know how theyre is going to live this down.
Oregon Live
2.5
McCarthy requires grit, and its hard to think of a less gritty director than Ridley Scott.
Movies Tv Guide
2.0
With a solid cast and stylish direction by Ridley Scott, it would seem to have everything going for it.
Maki At The Movies
1.0
This results in a cautionary story of bleak proportions, with disagreeable characters encountering dissatisfying endings.
3.0
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 manag ..
Cine Vue
3.0
As viscerally promising as the McCarthy Scott combination initially seemed, the result is nourishing on a purely intellectual level; it works in your ..
Digital Spy
4.0
The details of the drug deal that drives the plot are kept somewhat murky, presumably because McCarthy and director Ridley Scott are more interested i ..
Flicks
2.5
Most of the movie just fixates on obscuring its story, over spicing its dialogue and finding different ways to detach head from body.
Red Eye Chicago
4.4
In its cross cultural breadth, director Ridley Scotts smart and violent film merits comparison to Steven Soderberghs Traffic, but the dialogue deliver ..
Stl Today
2.0
Its not all painful as McCarthy can still turn a phrase (They dont believe in coincidences.
Stl Today
3.5
At its very best if you buckle down and really work to piece together the nearly inscrutable plot you arent going to come away with much.
Screen Crush
4.4
What theyll find is a bold, scrupulously devised, rivetingly unpredictable thriller, as savagely provocative as an operatic Shakespearean tragedy and ..
Dustin Put Man
2.5
While Scotts direction is slick and often gorgeously cool, it never cracks the surface.
Contact Music
1.5
Instead, we get slow burn as entertainment inertia and it just doesnt work.
Film Racket
3.1
This is what The Counselor is about.The story in a McCarthy tale is secondary to what the story is driving at, which is always the same two points.
Christianity Today
2.5
The transition from confidence and competence to the first wrinkles of fear and on into abject horror is one of degrees, but Fassbender negotiates it ..
Hollywood And Fine
2.0
I got the distinct impression that somewhere, just off screen, the real story was taking place, leaving said screen filled with the asides, the circum ..
Killer Movie Reviews
4.0
Ridley Scott provides the dynamic imagery and evokes terrific performances, yet it is McCarthy who gives substance to that style and has the cast sing ..
Matts Movie Reviews
3.8
The Counselor isnt a perfect film, but its an imperfectly glorious film that is flawlessly written, impeccably acted and impossible to forget even whe ..
3.5
Not since Killing Them Softly has a mainstream thriller so doggedly resisted commercial payoffs.
The Dissolve
1.5
It seems impossible that a stellar cast under the guidance of such a gifted filmmaker and writer would be a step above awful.
Movie Web
2.0
Film has different storytelling requirements that The Counselor simply doesnt contain.
Hollywood Chicago
1.5
Ridley Scott is an immensely talented director and even his misfires are usually worthwhile.
Cinemix Tape
2.5
Yet even if The Counselor fails to live up to its hype, with its snappy dialogue and satisfying action sequences, it is a good bit of naughty fun.
Film Comment
1.0
Scott has always struggled to find what is most engaging about his narratives, instead settling for the visual over the emotional.
Sbs
2.5
Bardem is merely a caricature, a cartoon joke for the viewership that occasionally gets wide eyed and gives the audience a chuckle.Pitt is wasted alto ..
Awards Circuit
2.5
While Shakespeare understood the importance of nuance in foreshadowing, McCarthys screenplay all but screams it at us.
Mercury News
1.3
... an excellent reminder of why even our best novelists should be discouraged from writing for the screen ... a ludicrous, laughably over the top att ..
Bitly
2.3
The Counselor is the first film with an original screenplay by revered scribe Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian, The Road, No Country for Old Men) and i ..
Under The Radar Mag
2.5
The Counselor is frustrating viewing by any standard, especially someone expecting a riveting crime thriller.
Scene Stealers
2.0
This isnt a thriller, this is far more than that: its a journey to a very dark, very real place on Earth.
Movie Mezzanine
3.0
McCarthys sensibility is all encompassing, and it seems like Scott is just there to realize it.
Movie Mezzanine
4.0
Cormac McCarthys first original film script is every bit as bleak and brutal as you would expect from the author of No Country for Old Men and The Roa ..
What So
4.0
This picture stands on its own as a mighty cinematic achievement.
reason
1.5
Frustratingly directionless and unconcerned with detail, but fans of the writer will feel right at home wallowing through fresh reams of his trademark ..
Film 4
2.5
The only thing more shocking than The Counselors frequent head poppings and Diazs acrobatic automobile display is how underwhelming this pedigreed cri ..
Streaming Quickflix
3.1
At its best, this film is reminiscent of the philosophical slant often taken by the Coen brothers. At its worst, it recalls the excesses of latter day ..
Clclt
3.0
Cormac McCarthys dialogue (from his very first original screenplay) is unintentionally silly, but director Ridley Scott just gets on and rides it down ..
East Bay Express
3.5
The Counselor is exactly the type of ugly, depraved tale of the vengeful and virtue less that fans of his work will love
2.0
Unfortunately, this is all wrapped up in a beautiful looking movie that failed to grab my attention.
Fat Guys At The Movies
2.5
No, in more realistic terms, The Counselor is simply an incoherent piece of crap.
Concrete Play Ground
1.0
Making a film is so hard.Sometimes you wish it had been impossible.
New Republic
0.5
For a film that tries to depend heavily on sexuality, it certainly isnt very sexy.
Ion Cinema
1.0
And next to The Counselor, with its wipe clean, laminated images, its refreshing to see a movie so visually undemonstrative.
New States Man
3.5
McCarthy and Scott capitalize their themes: this is The End. This is The End of the Road, the End of Civilization, the End of Capitalism. This isnt ne ..
New City Film
1.0
If only Ridley Scotts The Counselor was as exciting and promising as its notable cast!
Review Express
2.0
If you show something, you dont have to tell it, and you certainly dont have to tell it more than once.
Movie Mom
2.0
Theres undoubtedly a good film and a fascinating story in there somewhere, but it hasnt found its way onto the screen.
Fan The Fire Magazine
1.5
This is a mystery without mysteries.Not surprising, given that it is a Ridley Scott film.
Entertainment Time
2.5
No complaints about the acting or Ridley Scotts directing and cinematography. They are superb. Cormac McCarthys writing is not so impressive.
Tri City Herald
2.0
The script the 80 year old handed in was so utterly unfit for purpose Im not even sure you can call it a screenplay.Its probably not easy to order one ..
Daily Star
2.5
The Counselor should carry a warning: This film is written by Cormac McCarthy, beware!
Daily Film Fix
2.0
Its got great filmmaker Ridley Scott helming, lots of big stars, and a script by Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy.
Theepoch Times
1.9
What a letdown. The Counselor is a rambling mess with a talented cast thats far superlative to its tedious screenplay.
Qc Times
2.0
The filmmakers seem to have been going for both, but despite their great cast, the characters arent allowed sufficient breathing room for us to believ ..
Assignment X
3.1
The twisted Cormac McCarthy wrote it, the visually indulgent Ridley Scott directed it and Diaz acted the heck out of it.And once viewed, theres no way ..
Wp Me
4.0
Fassbender turns the Counselor inside out in front of the audience.
Graffiti With Punctuation
2.5
The Counselor Directed by Ridley Scott.Screenplay by Cormac McCarthy.
Toledo Blade
3.0
But surely a writer of McCarthys calibre has no need to pad out with cliche or lift from other movies.Apparently not.
Sky
4.5
The dialogue is crisp and refreshing, and even though the story is largely predictable, it still maintains its suspense and shock value.
Kaplan Vs Kaplan
2.5
Some will find it a head scratcher, others will be drawn into its uncompromising look at life and death, cartel style.
Richard Crouse
5.0
A masterful film, one that succeeds in conveying the nature of a cold, uncaring cosmos with remorseless tenacity.
Free Beacon
1.9
Just about everything goes wrong in Scotts film, too, although Fassbender is solid and Bardem and Pitt are amusing.But the script does them no favors ..
Miami
5.0
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Richard Roeper
2.3
That man is a legendhes mastered every genre from outer space horror to historical epic to farm comedy.
Schmoes Know
0.5
The only joy is in a horrified desire to see what craziness happens next.
Film.com
3.0
Cormac McCarthys manly grade of nihilism, pseudo biblical prose and extreme acts of violence fill a plot driven story that shows startlingly little in ..
Metro Times
2.0
An inert, dispiriting, detached, disjointed, counterfeit and clumsy film ...
Little White Lies
1.5
Some of it works blisteringly well, but The Counselor has issues that might have been solved if it had been a novel rather than a screenplay.
Ut Sandiego
2.0
Do Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy have teenage sons they want to impress Is that why they have put together this ludicrous fantasy, almost entirely ..
Critics Notebook
3.8
But McCarthys desert noir script, which can be brilliant, seems ill fit for the big screen, and will alienate casual viewers looking for punchy drama ..
MLive.com
2.0
You continually feel like right here, this very moment, is where things are going to change, where the film begins living up to its potential. Instead ..
1.5
It isnt a cautionary tale inviting us to see the error of the Counselors ways.
Esquire
2.9
McCarthy should have hired one himself Cormac McCarthy books have been made into some of the best movies you will ever watch.
Flixist
1.0
And director Ridley Scott is certainly no slouch, but this must surely rank among his worst films, even worse than the unholy mess of Prometheus and h ..
Standard Net Au
2.0
The director who made Thelma and Louise and Alien fails to bring any spine to the gelatinous narrative, and as a result, the movie pretty much feels l ..
O Canada
3.0
Despite some lovely exchanges and cracking lines, The Counsellor is too complex and wordy for its own good, so its Cormac 1, Scott 0.
Birmingham Mail
1.0
The only thing that saves The Counselor from being a total trainwreck is its strong cast.
The Mercury
2.0
Surely McCarthy knows that.But as a vision of a higher, more rewarding path, this love story seems sentimental, superficial, and sex obsessed.
Looking Closer
3.0
Scott presents it all well enough, generating a fair bit of suspense at times, but McCarthys script is empty, thinking its profound when its merely va ..
Stardem
2.3
The Counsellor is a mess of a film.Some good moments do shine through, but most of it is just mediocrity hiding behind pretention.
Alternative Lens
4.0
McCarthy and Scott have crafted a spectacular feeding frenzy void of any of the gloss or fantasy associated with the criminal underbelly.
The Popcorn Junkie
3.0
That doesnt sound like an endorsement of rape culture at all, thanks Cormac!
The Reader (Omaha, NE)
1.5
Time and again, I groaned inside at the awkward, writerly dialogue unconvincingly uttered by a talented cast, most of them at a loss to make the dialo ..
D Cist
3.0
It intersperses bursts of grotesque violence including a couple of novel beheadings with bombastic or portentous dialogue thats just as lethal, at lea ..
Oc Register
1.8
Thankfully, the actors each walk out unscathed, as they have given their all.McCarthy and Scott, though
The Hollywood Outsider
1.5
The Counselor is chock full of talent...Despite this, the movie ends up leaving the viewer feeling empty. There are some nicely staged scenes, but the ..
KCCI (Des Moines, IA)
4.0
The visionary director reins in his typically epic style for a more reserved, dialogue driven study of crime and greed.However, Scotts visuals in tand ..
Fox News
2.0
It reminds me of The Lone Ranger, actually.Its too well made, too well intentioned and too ambitious to call bad, and sometimes it succeeds in its goa ..
Cines Nark
2.0
Most bad movies are failures of inspiration and ambition, barely worth discussing.It takes talent to make a film so creatively, indelibly awful that a ..
7 Dvt
2.0
Not to admire.McCarthys objective here is, quite clearly, to update Joseph Conrad in locating the heart of darkness.
Arts Fuse
1.5
Against all odds, it succeeds as a highly original feat of gripping drama.
Ma Cleans
1.5
Its the script itself that manages to dull even the most exciting and provocative parts of the stories.
Big Hollywood
1.5
The plot is boring, who cares nonsense. I think its just unbelievably weird, and not only because Cameron Diaz screws a car.
Technology Tell
2.5
Heres the thing: This movie has a brilliant screenwriter: Cormac McCarthy is a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and is, without question, one of the co ..
Ladue News
2.0
...at least in No Country these conversations ended with a cattle gun to the head.
The Crat
2.0
No Country for Old Men, the most successful McCarthy film thus far, was a searing thriller with a dark heart an exhilarating downer.
Electric Sheep Magazine
2.5
An unrestrained indulgence in writer Cormac McCarthys Southwestern Gothic, The Counselor tells the tale of a good man undone by greed and a single lap ..
Bloom Berg
3.0
The Counselor is mostly a lot of nonsense, but it packs enough memorable imagery and McCarthy weirdness to keep it interesting.
Filmdrunk Uproxx
3.8
Take it all in and enjoy and worry about the counseling youll need later.
Co Ed
1.0
This unnecessary fillip seems annoying and dumb and it is but it should also be noted that The Counselor is not just annoying and dumb, it is fractall ..
Cinephiled
3.0
Despite some lovely exchanges and cracking lines, The Counsellor is too complex and wordy for its own good, so its Cormac 1, Scott 0.
Birmingham Post
4.0
The difference Breaking Bad knew their audience, The Counselor doesnt seem to.
Nerdophiles
1.0
On the surface, this new Ridley Scott thriller, written by No Country for Old Men novelist Cormac McCarthy, is a narrative wipeout: a supposedly twist ..
T
1.5
Even if its sometimes bumbling and inexplicable its never not totally captivating.
My New Plaid Pants
2.5
The players are mostly game, save for the miscast Diaz, and the film, directed by Ridley Scott, is slickly packaged.But coherence isnt really on this ..
Aarp Blog
1.5
Based on Cormac McCarthys first original script, The Counselor is as brutal, philosophical and bleak as you would expect from his books. As directed b ..
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