Fresh
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, Grantland
Overview
A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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34%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A great writer's pompous idea of pulp fiction, treated with stultifying seriousness by everyone else involved.
Guy Lodge, Time Out
Rotten
Each scene serves as little more than an index card for the mechanistic plot, which Scott films in a glossy and fluid style befitting an industrial promotion for the movie's high-tech weaponry.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Rotten
The Counselor is the cumbersome end product of a high-minded writer trying to slum and a slick director aiming for cosmic depth.
Sam Weisberg, Village Voice
Rotten
It's not so much a bad film as it is a disappointing one. A very disappointing one.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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